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Re: forcing autodiscovery to use loopback address

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Subject: Re: forcing autodiscovery to use loopback address
From: Ray Schafer <schafer@tkg.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 23:41:32 +0000
"Lemire, Mark" wrote:

> [...]

> 1. Maintain a list of loopback addresses that are in the process of being
> put on the network.
> 2. Write a script that pings these addresses every x minutes.
> 3. As soon as they are pingable, issue a netmon -y.
> 4. Rebuild the seedfile nightly to add/delete addresses from the list.
>
> Not perfect, but will hopefully work 95%+ of the time.  Thanks again!

Sounds good, but if you delete an address from the seedfile, it will NOT be
deleted from the database, you'll have to delete it from the map.

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Ray Schafer                   | schafer@tkg.com
The Kernel Group              | Distributed Systems Management
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