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The need to know the network has given rise to a market for network discovery applications?programs that crawl around the network, verifying specified addresses. To know those addresses, network managers must know what they have. "We'd have to trust that some guy at that location was being honest with me and telling me everything he had connected," said Lytle. "In some cases ... there is no local IT staff." "Discovery Tool Helps Firm See Whole Network"