[hobbit] Route Question

[Geoff Hallford]

It works as you thought and I hoped. Thanks. It will chain.

'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra


On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford at gmail.com>wrote:

> Perfect, thanks. I just need someone's confirmation. I will disable
> alerting later Today and give it a shot. I will let the list know, so that
> other can know as well.
>
> I think that should probably be added to the bb-hosts man page for the
> "route:" tag, since it doesn't explain that this can work and is much better
> to do.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:
>
>> My money says it would work as expected.  To be sure simply set a static
>> arp entry for 10.30.30.30, switch2 and 10.20.20.20, rtr1.  You should see
>> the router go red and the switch go yellow.
>>
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>>
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>> --- Henry Spencer
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if the route tag in bb-hosts "chains"? I am trying to
>>> configure the route dependencies the best way possible. Would this work?
>>>
>>> Example:
>>> -----------------------------
>>> Host is HostA and the path to HostA is RTR1,STCH2,RTR3.
>>>
>>> bb-hosts Example (What I want to do):
>>> -----------------------------
>>> 10.20.20.21 HOBBIT
>>> 10.20.20.20 RTR1
>>> 10.30.30.30 SWCH2 route:RTR1
>>> 10.40.40.40 RTR3 route:SWCH2
>>> 10.40.40.41 HostA route:RTR3
>>>
>>> So that if say SWCH2 goes down, I won't get alerts for RTR3 or HostA
>>> (because the dependency "chains" from RTR3, to SWCH2 ....
>>>
>>> OR, do I have to do it like the following (whole path, each time):
>>>
>>> bb-hosts Example (What I don't really want to do but should work no
>>> matter what):
>>> -----------------------------
>>> 10.20.20.21 HOBBIT
>>> 10.20.20.20 RTR1
>>> 10.30.30.30 SWCH2 route:RTR1
>>> 10.40.40.40 RTR3 route:RTR1,SWCH2
>>> 10.40.40.41 HostA route:RTR1,SWCH2,RTR3
>>>
>>> Thanks! I don't have a test network device to try this, which is why I am
>>> asking.
>>>
>>> Geoff Hallford
>>>
>>> 'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra
>>>
>>
>>
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