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Mark Parsons
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‎04-25-2013 01:32 AM

‎04-25-2013 01:32 AM

Gsp mac address

Is there a way of getting the mac address of the gsp when you cant connect to the gsp?

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Matti_Kurkela
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‎04-25-2013 04:47 AM

‎04-25-2013 04:47 AM

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Re: Gsp mac address

Yes. Walk to the server and read the GSP MAC address from the label at the back of the server :)

 

If you can ping the GSP (i.e. you already know its IP address) from another system in the same network segment, you could look at the ARP table of that system right after pinging the GSP, and get the MAC address that way.

 

Typically the ARP table entries may expire within 5-30 seconds, so it's important to ping first and then view the ARP table immediately afterwards.

MK
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