How to autodiscover mikrotik

procad · Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:58 pm

How I can autodiscover mikrotik in my lan? It's an UPD? witch format?
I want to develope a little application by my self, like NeighborViewer, that retrieve informations about all mikrotik in the lan.

Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:01 pm

just use the dude

procad · Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:57 pm

ok...but if I want to develope a personal application?

Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:59 pm

you can use ping, snmpwalk and other tools to discover devices and services

procad · Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:08 pm

but how can I be shure about to find mikrotik?

cmit · Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:09 pm

OK, let me pick that up.

I can see roughly what's happening when you press the "..." button in the WinBox connection dialog (broadcasts, ...) using a packet sniffer.

Would MikroTik open up the details of the possible responses of RouterOS devices?

Best regards,
Christian Meis

procad · Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:14 pm

Yes, something like that.

savage · Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:12 pm

MT uses CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol), described in full at http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc ... /cisnm.htm

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cmit · Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:33 pm

Banging ... my ... head ... on ... the ... wall ...

Thanks! Of course - that was to expect, as I can see our Ciscos with it

Best regards,
Christian Meis

ice · Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:28 am

BUT....
using CDP Monitor software we cannot scan MT.

savage · Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:29 pm

IP->Neighbours, and enable the discovery interfaces.

ice · Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:47 am

They are enables. Simultaneously checking with Neighbor viewer shows MT. But with any other CDP MONITOR software MT is not discovered. I think MT is not 100% CDP.

savage · Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:26 am

Works fine for me,

root@netsphere:~# cdpr
cdpr - Cisco Discovery Protocol Reporter
Version 2.2.0
Copyright (c) 2002-2004 - MonkeyMental.com

1. sis0 (No description available)
2. rl0 (No description available)
3. lo0 (No description available)
Enter the interface number (1-3):1
Using Device: sis0
Waiting for CDP advertisement:
(default config is to transmit CDP packets every 60 seconds)
Device ID
  value:  mikrotik-core02
Addresses
  value:  198.18.0.35

That's a CDP client on Unix picking up my mikrotik box. You don't perhaps have some firewalls somewhere dropping the packets?

ice · Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:13 pm

I am using CDP Monitor from TALLSOFT. It works on WINDOWS XP. It doesn't show. Do you know any software which works on Windows and can scan MT. I don't want to use Neighbor Viewer for some reason.

savage · Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:27 pm

Windows? unfortunately not.

Keep in mind, it is very possible that the firewall in SP2 may block this traffic...

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