Cool. That was the part I had left out
Thank you for the help
Chris Petrina
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| "Evans, Bill" <Bill.Evans@hq.doe.gov>
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"and IP Forwarding turned on" is the operant condition. Switches don't forward between IP addresses; they forward between the incoming port which has an IP address and all the Level 2 ports which have no IP address.
Bill Evans
Tivoli NetView Support for DOE
903-301-0057
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From: Christopher J Petrina [mailto:cjp8@meadwestvaco.com]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 3:00 PM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: RE: [nv-l] Routers vs. Switches
How would NV then be able to differentiate between an actual router and a switch that happens to have a primary and secondary interface. Since Switches generally only have one IP address (in our case two for redundancy) it will always consider these to be routers then I take it?
-Chris Petrina
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| "Evans, Bill" <Bill.Evans@hq.doe.gov>
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03/22/2004 02:42 PM
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Almost everything IP has a routing table including your desktop. Issue "route print" to see it.
NetView considers anything which has multiple IP addresses and IP Forwarding turned on to be a router.
Bill Evans
Tivoli NetView Support for DOE
903-301-0057
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher J Petrina [mailto:cjp8@meadwestvaco.com]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:14 PM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: [nv-l] Routers vs. Switches
Hello all,
Its it my understanding that a device is considered a router if it has a routing table? What I am trying to find out is how to differentiate a switch from a router. I use routers as gateways, however switches are not gateways. But if NV comes across a switch which happens to have a routing table (Such as a switch with an L3 card in it) it will interpret that device as a router and place it as a gateway?
Chris Petrina
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