Work in Progress: WLANs in Network Topology Maps

As announced, our development team works on the visualization of WLANs within the network map. We already have a first implementation that shows wireless lans as clouds with a WLAN icon. WLAN connections are dotted lines instead of solid lines for ethernet connections. A checkbox within the toolbar lets users decide whether to show or[...]
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Network Topology Discovery using Spanning Tree Information

JDisc Discovery has greatly improved its layer 2 topology detection by using the port forwarding database. A switch maintains a table of mac addresses that are connected to each port. When looking at all switches, we can detect the switch topology. However, in some situations, the mac forwarding information is not complete. Switches drop mac[...]
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