Hi,
End-of-year, sort-through-cruft time. (Fun -- NOT!)
I have several network switches that I need to decide to keep or toss. An obvious criteria for doing so is broken ports!
I was going to just set up a pair of hosts, have one in an infinite ping loop (RTT's being displayed for each ping) and hot plugging the other host (obviously, the *target* of the ping) into one port at a time.
Plug in, verify that the next few pings succeed, unplug, advance to next port...
But, I'm wondering if I will need to cycle power to the switch between unplug-plug events? Or, will the unplug event be causal enough to cause the switch to "forget" what's attached to the unplugged port?
(I don't want to falsely determine that subsequent ports are "bad" when it is really the switch misdirecting traffic based on stale data!)
Any other *quicker*/safer way to test them?
Thx,
--don