Switch Port Mapper (Kirk Thomas) (p)

Ron Nutter (TechBytes) talks with Kirk Thomas, creator of NetScanTools Pro (www.netscantools.com) and Switch Port Mapper, about the port detail that Switch Port Mapper can perform discovery on and the information you can gather. Kirk then explains how Switch Port Mapper works with a variety of managed switches in the industry including HP, Cisco, Dell, NetGear,  Nortel, DLink, 3Com, Linksys and more and gives some hints on mapping your network devices using SNMP read community strings. Finally, Kirk explains how Switch Port Mapper can be used on a regular basis and data can be exported for further analysis. The podcast closes with security warnings.