Leslie
Thanks for your swift reply! Two more questions:-
1) Is the product released?
2) Can you point me towards any URLs with documentation on this product?
(There was nothing obvious on the Tivoli website).
Thanks again,
--
Martin Walder
Tivoli Certified Enterprise Consultant
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lclark@us.ibm.com wrote:
> The answer is that alone, it does not. This is because most NAT firewalls
> do not handle translation of the addresses in the payload, so snmp queries
> to a device would return results that do not match the translated address
> of
> the device itself. This is why Tivoli has come out with the CNAT product.
> It sits on a server somewhere else to do the interception and translation,
> and
> it translates addresses in the payload as well as the address of the
> device.
> There is also code that runs on Netview itself, indicating those addresses
> that have been normalized. I have not seen the product, only a presentation
> on how it works.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> Detroit
>
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> Martin Walder <martin.walder@itmasters.com>@tkg.com on 05/12/2000 05:05:44
> AM
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>
> This question has been asked in the archives, but not really answered,
> as far as I can tell. How well does NetView handle NAT? All I want to
> do is manage a remote machine across a VPN, with one firewall at either
> end. The config would be NetView 6.0 on a Solaris machine. Thx.
>
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> Martin Walder
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>
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