stories of war between boy and machine
Ok so this is a bolt-on post to my previous post, where I am now essentially trying to figure out a nice way to map the data between the computers and their positions in a room. The way I’ve designed the system is that I have three tables with the relevant data: Hosts: The main […]
Carrying straight on from my previous post on the subject, I’m going to go through the alluded to third page to add, which is query.php and change main.js a little, too. The purpose is to swap out the hard coded arrays of data for an external data source, namely a web-based resource rather than any locally stored files using […]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any updates about Switchy McPortface. It works just fine in my dayjob and the data can be viewed by anyone wanting to see what is plugged into what, which has been helpful in a few situations. However, aside from a few customised tables and functions, there’s not really […]
Back in Part 1, I demonstrated an example of uploading data to a webserver with cURL. The thing that bugged me was, however, that this used external libraries which can be annoying to deploy with. One option is to statically link the cURL libraries, which will make it huge, but I decided to go native in Windows […]
Following on from the last post on the topic of capturing packet data from a network, this guide demonstrates how you can use a cURL library to upload data from an application written in C (or C++) to a webserver. Although at times I refer to previous examples, you can use this in any number of applications. This will touch […]
Further to my previous post, this post details how to interpret network discovery packets – LLDP and CDP – that have been captured on a network interface. To do this, I’ll explain how to create a Type, Length and Value reader that reads an array of characters, determines the type of packet and its subsequent data fields […]
I’ll categorise and change the order of posts later perhaps, but here is the first in a series on how I made an application to record the switchport and vlan, of a switch, that a computer is connected to. This setup will work where: You have a Windows PC with Winsock installed (Windows XP or later […]
The last 6 months have become very busy, so I decided to take a break from the breaking (and fixing) of our servers and get back to the program I’ve been working on to map network information (for which I still have no real name for). Progress had been going quite well; by around December last year, […]
Carrying on with my network-switchport-mapping-program, here’s the latest thing I was working on; making a configuration file. Because I keep changing where I am, so also does my active network connection (in other words, at work the IP address is something like 10.x.x.x and at home its 192.x.x.x). The thing is, it isn’t going to […]
(I am trying out a new theme today called Crayon syntax highlighter which should hopefully make some of these coding examples I do look a bit prettier. I set it to the Visual Studio 2012 theme, which means using Consolas as the font. So lets see how this goes!) Today I will show you what […]