RE: [nv-l] Switch Analyzer and Layer 3 switches

["Federico Vidal" <fvidal@tecsystem.com.ar>]

Christopher,

 

ONE of the means by which netview determines a device to be a router is if it has the ipforwarding mib value to true (1).

Disabling routing may turn it to false.

 

Have you then tried itsa's importoid command?

 

Federico Vidal

 

 

 -----Mensaje original-----
De: Christopher J Petrina [mailto:cjp8@meadwestvaco.com]
Enviado el: Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:28 PM
Para: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Asunto: [nv-l] Switch Analyzer and Layer 3 switches

> 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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