Sometimes having the same problem.
And it's NOT the gateway which is causing the trouble.
It's MY Fddi-interface which looses it's connection to our backbone.
Even have to reboot my machine.
There's just no other way to reconnect to our Fddi-bacbone.
My work-around:
Run a job (shell-script) every 10 minutes (crontab).
Ping your default gateway.
If you cannot reach it, ovstop netmon.
Plus any other action you want (alarms?).
Maybe it's a kludge, but at least it's simple, quick and dirty(?).
And fortunately i've planned for 2 network interfaces on my machine.
IF#1 used for "managing the network".
IF#2 used for "access to the manager-machine".
Highly recommended.
HTH.
Regards, Ralph.
iT-AUSTRIA / OE2100 / TK
Tel (mobil) 0664 1908469
Tel (iT-A) 21717 58948
FAX (iT-A) 21717 58979
Mailto:Ralph.Schiffinger@erstebank.at
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Paul Fordy [SMTP:paul.fordy@VIRGIN.NET]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 07. September 1999 08:29
> An: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Betreff: Default gateway
>
> I'm using Netview 5.1 on AIX 4.2.1 and recently hit a problem where the
> default
> gateway was unavailable and Netview reported all sorts of devices as being
> down
> because it could not longer reach them.
>
> How can I improve the reliability by not relying on one single device?
> I'm not aware
> of a way of having a second default gateway.
>
> Thanks
> Paul Fordy
|