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Um, I might be off base here, but EVERY TCP/IP device has a
routing table.
Have you tried configuring one of your 5024s to actually
disable the routing capability? I would be curious to see if that would
get rid of the routing table information.
Michael Webb, IBM Tivoli
Q1CA Distributed NetView / ITSA
SVT
Email: mlwebb@us.ibm.com
Ext: (919) 224-1410, T/L:
687-1410
 "Christopher J Petrina"
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Greetings all,
The subject is ominous but here is my situation.
We haev some Alcatel 5024's. These devices by default
have some built in routing capabilites. As such they contain a routing table
where populated or not it is still there, however these devices are trully
only being used as a layer2 switch; but Switch Analyzer is not recognizing
them as such. The reason I found out from Magnum is that One of the means by
which netview determines a device to be a router is if it contains a routing
table. Well the moment it finds the table ont hese devices it calls it a
router and switch analyzer will not attempt to do any layer2 discovery on
it.
My question is, is there a way to override
Netviews discovery and force these devices to show as layer2 devices only? In
the oid_to_type this particular device is listed as a HB (Hub Bridge) with no
mention of G(gateway).
Thanks
Chris Petrina
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