I came across this
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ht77vx
Yes, it's homelab but it intrigued me because it could definitely be used in an enterprise setup, and I wouldn't want to make anything myself. It's far better to have supper from a manufacturer and probably costs less in the long run . Essentially we have some wall ports at work, and they're configured for different VLANs. The cables are nice and tidy.
Most of the time you can look ar the back of a phone, find the MAC address and then find what switch port it's connected to. There's a colleague at work who's incredibly stubborn. I've basically corrected five years of bad wiring, and made everything neat. He still pulls on cables for ports connected to the wall, which has undone a lot of my effort through Covid...
Would Fluke's netscout provide a similar thing to the above? Are there cheaper alternatives? We'd only need something basic. Hopefully this could convince one of the more stubborn members of staff who's been there 15 years to not pull on cables that are connected into wall ports. We have some cables that are 10 metres long given the wall port is about 8m away from the desk
We do already have an actual network tester too, and that's a cheap thing that you can buy from Amazon. Not fantastic, not Fluke, but not bad either
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