Frank,

I'm not 100% certain that my answer is correct, tho I did go a few rounds
with Tivoli on this very issue. Our data center links are also VPN's with
discontiguous address ranges. We had to draw links manually (via Edit, Add,
Connection) between sites in order to show connectivity. I'm hoping someone
out there has a better solution, but the fact that the addresses are
discontiguous pretty well keep NetView from figuring out that they are
connected. 

I never had the issue you are with the firewall, tho.

Regards,

Steve Elliott
Sr. Network Mgmt. Engineer
epicRealm, Inc.
214-570-4560


-----Original Message-----
From: Bender, Frank (GIC) [mailto:FBender AT gicmbh DOT com]
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 6:35 AM
To: 'IBM NetView Discussion'
Subject: [NV-L] How to manage VPNs


Hi all,

We are switching some WAN line to VPNs, this means:
we have to different networks, with distinct IP-ranges, like this:

        172.16.x.x-FireWall--Internet--FireWall-162.44.x.x

I am able to see the remote network and to do discovery, but I do not get a
line in between and the remote firewall is colored white, even it can be
pinged from the NV-box and status polling works fine.

What is the preferred setup for such an environment?

Netview 6.0.1 on AIX 4.3.3.0-4

Thanks
Frank