When you set this up for yourself, I am curious to know what actually happened?

In my experience with location.conf, the "complete" segment does not have to be in the site container with the primary router that has the WAN link.  Only the IP addresses that make up the router need to be in the lower site container, including the IP address in the WAN segment (network).  This will put the router in the lower level container, but the segment (network) will be in the higher upper level container since other devices share that network.  That is my current understanding and the way I have seen it work (for both Unix and Windows).

Michael Webb, IBM Tivoli
Q1CA Distributed NetView / ITSA SVT
Email: mlwebb AT us.ibm DOT com
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"Christopher J Petrina" <cjp8 AT meadwestvaco DOT com>

"Christopher J Petrina" <cjp8 AT meadwestvaco DOT com> Sent by: owner-nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com 03/29/2004 05:03 PM Please respond to nv-l

To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com cc: Subject: [nv-l] Location.conf again

Hello all,

Clarification requested please. In reading through all the new information about lcoation.conf and the enhancements to it in 7.1.4 for UNIX, I understand where it says in order for a router to be placed in a specific container all segments of that router must be in the same container as well. I understand this and find it perfectly acceptable. However, my only quesiton is, that automatically NV will place networks on the highest most map (Generally the IP Internet MAP) that link two devices. This is our case when dealing with WAN links. Every site we have has a primary router with a WAN link. and the main WAN routers are back here in Dayton. The only map that WAN segments should be placed on in our case is the main IP Internet map becase all the other "FARSIDE" routers ont he wan are in different cities states and countries. So I guess I get confused because in order to have the ! routers automatically placed in a container all the segments must be in that container, but NV will never put a WAN segment at a particular site since the highest map level between the containers would be the IP Internet map.

Am I reading into this incorrectly?

Chris Petrina