Sorry I gave you the statements and forgot the thoery
One problem in SNMP management has been how do you deliver events / data
when the interface your traffic originates from is down. In our case, this
interface being specified as the loopback interface allows network routing
protocols to send traps via whatever path is available since the "loopback"
interface NEVER goes down.
The downside is you must have routing in your network to support this
address range. As you see from my example, we mask it down to a single
address space and all routers are configured to support this subnet for
routing purposes.
-----Original Message-----
From: Barr, Scott [mailto:Scott_Barr@csgsystems.com]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:16 PM
To: 'IBM NetView Discussion'
Subject: RE: [NV-L] DNS and Netview
Yes you are exactly correct - here are the IOS statements:
interface Loopback0
description *** Loopback Interface SNMP Manager ***
ip address 10.255.255.35 255.255.255.255
snmp-server trap-source Loopback0
-----Original Message-----
From: netview@toddh.net [mailto:netview@toddh.net]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 12:31 PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: Re: [NV-L] DNS and Netview
Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk> writes:
> I am quite sure that NetView uses name resolution for more than traps.
> That said, it's an excellent idea to force your Ciscos to always send
> traps from the loopback (you can't necessarily do this for ALL your
> devices now and in the future, perhaps??)
At the risk of asking a silly question....can anyone explain this
concept of sending traps from the loopback interface? I'm struggling
at what this means.
I'm familiar with a loopback address of 127.0.0.1, but as for loopback
interface, I'm a bit lost. Is this an administrative interface on
Cisco devices that receives an IP address other than 127.0.0.1?
Answers in the form of IOS commands cheerfully accepted.
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Todd H.
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