The reason routers appear disconnected is because your client
uses IP unnumbered interfaces.
>From what I know about NetView it builds the map following way:
1. Discovers the router - puts it on the Internet level
2. Discovers interfaces on the router and corresponding masks and puts
IP networks on the IP internet level map.
3. Starts discovery on the segments for the attached devices.
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Cappelletti [mailto:adrian@TECNET.COM.AR]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 11:28 AM
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
Subject: Working with statics routes
Hi,
This is the platform where I'm working:
AIX 4.3.1
Netview 5.1 (No patches Installed)
FrameWork 3.6
The problem is the following:
My client has a very big Network that uses Static Routes to avoid heavy
routing traffic. The most Interesting is that this client uses static routes
oriented to Interface (eg: Serial 0) and not to IP address. We know that is
posible and It works. I mean, there isn't conectivity problems.
The question is that in the IP MAP these routers appears disconnected.
The netview can poll the devices, but there is no way to see these routes
connected.
I've got the following information:
When execute "rnetstat" (to get route table form a device), the static
routes oriented to a interface, the next hop field appears wtih the address
0.0.0.0 (or 0). I seems that Netview doesn't know how to connect these
devices because there is no way to connect them.
One more detail, the interfeces are unnumbered, but the unnumbered option is
acivated for netmon daemon.
If you activate a routing protocol (RIP) on the same network, the map is
draw in the right way.
Anybody hears about that ?
Thanks in advancce.
Adrian
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