RE: [nv-l] Managing routers with duplicated IP address

["Evans, Bill" <Bill.Evans@hq.doe.gov>]

Yes, it's possible.  It's absolute necessary with the HSRP support. This is from /usr/OV/conf/netmon.seed.

#    Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) Support
#
#      HSRP interfaces may be specified here for netmon to acknowledge them.
#      Only the public IP address need be entered. 
#
#      Use the prefix '%', and use the same syntax for ranges and wildcards
#      described above for positive seed entries.  For instance, if 1.1.1.1
#      is the IP address of the HSRP interface that switches between two
#      routers, enter,
#
#         %1.1.1.1

Other reasons may exist for doing so and NV can handle accidental duplicate interface adddresses on routers but it doesn't like it.  It definitely won't handle routers whose primary interface addresses are duplicated; as you've seen it will delete one of them.  To give you a better answer we need to know why there are duplicate addresses.  The solution may be to use CNAT  or it may be to identify the devices as HSRP or it may be simply to clean up your network interface definitions.

If you search the archives for this mailing list you will see a few cases where the HSRP support is used to handle duplicate IF addresses present for other reasons.  

You simply haven't given enough information for anyone to send an intelligent answer.  Why do your routers have duplicate addresses? 

Bill Evans
Tivoli NetView Support for DOE
301-903-0057

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcos Antonio Pezzutti Filho [mailto:pezzutti@banespa.com.br]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:58 PM
To: 'nv-l@lists.tivoli.com'
Subject: [nv-l] Managing routers with duplicated IP address

Dear friends,

Our Environment:

AIX 4.3.3 ML-10
Tivoli Netview 7.1.4
Tivoli Framework 3.7.1
ITEC 3.9

We´d like to know if it´s possible to manage a router with an IP address duplicated on another router ?

Thanks in advance

Marcos Antonio Pezzutti Filho
Santander Banespa - Infra-Multiplataforma
* Fone: 5854-6339 * Fax: 5538-5260
pezzutti@banespa.com.br <mailto:pezzutti@banespa.com.br>