[nv-l] Trap source

[bill.kellam@worldspan.com]

Hi,

I'm running NV 7.1.4 on AIX 5.2

I thought I understood something about how a trap source was logged in
trapd.log but I've seen something that challenges my understanding. I have
a router with a loopback interface and 5 frame relay interfaces like so.
Name resolution is shown in parenthesis:

router1.domain.net (192.168.14.1) Cisco Router
             192.168.14.1 (router1.domain.net) Loopback0 -- Software
Loopback
             10.11.1.254 () Serial0/0.1 -- Frame Relay
             10.11.3.254 () Serial0/1.1 -- Frame Relay
             10.12.100.254 () Serial0/0.2 -- Frame Relay
             10.12.102.254 () Serial0/1.2 -- Frame Relay
             10.18.109.46 () Serial1/0.1 -- Frame Relay

I seem to recall determining empirically that even if a trap was sent by
this router with the source as one of the serial interfaces, the trap would
be logged with a source of router1.domain.net. Recently I have been seeing
traps from this device with a source of 10.18.109.46. Is my understanding
as described here wrong? Will the trap source always be recorded just as it
was received?

Thanks,
Bill Kellam
Enterprise Integration and Management