[ale] Find IP-address from MAC address

[Jay Loden]

I realize I'm a bit slow in replying here, but I just worked with one of these 
at my workplace. It was a DeviceMaster but it's the same type of device. I 
had exactly the same problem - I had no idea what the IP was and I had to 
configure it. 

What I ended up doing (and, as it turns out, it's was the only way to 
configure certain aspects of the device) was using the serial to RJ45 
connector cable that came with the DeviceMaster to hook it up to a machine 
and connect directly with SecureCRT. 

I don't know what tools you have at your disposal, or how similar the N-Port 
and DeviceMaster are.  In my case, it was finicky...you had to type the 
commands at the exact right time during startup and so on just to get logged 
into the system correctly, etc. 

If you can in any way get connected to the thing via serial as Christopher 
suggested, I'd try it that way, then configure the IP or get the address 
through the serial connection. 

-Jay

On Friday 02 September 2005 11:47 am, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Does the N-Port have a serial console?  Connect to it and issue the
> proper commands to configure IP.
>