Prior Art submitted for Method and apparatus for determining the switch port to which an end-node device is connected http://www.peertopatent.org/patent/56/prior_art/list Apparatus and methods for determining a switching device and port to which a user selected end-node in a computer network is connected may include receiving an address of a user determined end-node and discovering a switching device that forwards traffic to no other device on the same port as the switching device forwards traffic to the selected end-node. The apparatus and methods may output an address of the discovered switching device and port to the user. en-us Methods and systems for determining switch connection topology on ethernet LANs Method and apparatus for determining the switch port to which an end-node device is connected Patent/Application #: 6,628,623<br/>Description: This patent talks about network management of switch topology using SNMP. Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:27:08 -0800 http://www.peertopatent.org/prior_art/175/detail Netdisco Conference Presentation at Resnet Symposium 2004 Method and apparatus for determining the switch port to which an end-node device is connected Title: Netdisco - Easy Network Management for ResNets<br/>Description: Slides presenting the open source Netdisco network discovery and management application. Netdisco includes a feature to identify the switch port to which a node, identified by MAC or IP address, is connected. Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:27:58 -0800 http://www.peertopatent.org/prior_art/149/detail