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how to find what's connected to an interface one hop away

I created a network map in solarwinds and it's showing me some links that should not be connected together. How can i confirm what's plugged into a port on my switch one hop away without crawling through the walls or disconnecting the wire? I know there's a show mac command to show the mac adresses but it shows everything out that port. I need to confirm without a doubt what's plugged into a port on my switch. thanks.
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what type of switch is it? Have you enabled remote administration on said switch?
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the switch port mapper did not show what's connected. Is there another way?
if application is not able to search then it will be more of a manual way to check mac address connected to switch and finding ip address from DHCP server or by ping and checking arp cache..
You can't (unless you have switches from providers that support some kind of next hop information protocols such as Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) or Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)).
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