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0002 Network discovery involves finding out which com puters, printers, Switches, routers, modems, servers, storage systems or other devices are connected to the network. The discovery process typically involves finding information about devices linked to the network, for example, a device's IP address, its type, and capabilities. Currently, it may be possible to automatically discover Some network components using multicast protocol. Such as Internet Group Manage ment Protocol (IGMP) between the node system and the external router for group membership discovery. However, multicast protocol is not widely supported through the Inter net. To circumvent Such shortcomings, some products on the market have their own network automatic discovery mecha nisms that are generally based on newcomer nodes obtaining the network topology information from a few server nodes. 0003. In a fairly …