How to find which switch port is associated with a particular outlet

[Stephen Partington]

MAGIC!!!

Try turning off the 24 port switch? also, look into ARP and see if you can
identify the MAC address on your network.

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 1:30 PM Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> I have an old Netgear JGS524E switch. I am trying to map out where all the
> wires go. I have a remote roku device that gives me the assigned IP and MAC
> address, and it says it is a wired connection. However, the switch only has
> a rudimentary web gui, and there is no show mac-address function. It would
> take some effort to remove the roku/TV from the wall to disconnect the
> network cable, so I was hoping there is some clever way to find out which
> switch port that roku device is connected to.
>
> I tried a process of elimination to map all the other lines back to the
> switch, and all of the lines are accounted for...which means the roku is
> not connected to the wired switch. But the interface says it is connected
> to a wired port, so I am at a loss to say which port goes to that device.
> The roku works even when I turn off the wifi routers....
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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