Ethernet wall socket

[Joe Porter]

Good morning,

I have an Ethernet wall socket that leads to a patch panel. However it doesn't appear to be patched into the switch. Unfortunately the Ethernet wall socket has not been labeled correctly. Am I correct in thinking if I hooked a PC up to the Ethernet wall socket and gave it a static IP I could use a laptop and plug it in and out of all the spare ports on the patch panel whilst running a ping -t to determine which port on the patch panel the Ethernet socket runs to?

If this is the case as neither PC would be directly connected to the network I presume I would just give them both an IP address on the same subnet?

EG:

192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.11 with subnet mask 255.255.255.0?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Solandri]

If the switch has lights, just plug the laptop into the wall socket. Then go to the patch panel. Plug an ethernet cable into the switch, then plug the other end of the cable into different ports on the patch panel until the connection light on the switch turns on.

 

[Joe Porter]

Good idea. Much more simple than what I had in mind. I'll do that. Out of curiosity would my idea have worked?