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benno

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-06

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networking_ports and automatic setting of ip address (using 0.7)

Hi,

can somebody explain the behavior of networking ports: when i have a port on a computer-device(!) that has an IP-address, and i connect this port to another port on another computer, this other port gets the same IP-address!

This way I cannot use GLPI for routers. Example: two Routers with networking ports xl0, xl1

      Router1                                                                    Router2
  xl0         xl1 .................. connected to .......................xl0        xl1  ..........................
            192.168.10.1/30                            192.168.10.1/30    172.16.0.1/24

When I set up the connection from Router1 to Router2, Router2 gets the same IP on its Interface xl0!

Note that there is no switch or hub in between!

I'm using a snapshot form 2007-07-31.

Thanks,
Benno

benno

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 7

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Re: networking_ports and automatic setting of ip address (using 0.7)

I have traced this to glpi/inc/networking.class.php  Netport->post_updateItem()

It seems that i should change

  $tomatch=array("netpoint","ifaddr","ifmac");

to

  $tomatch=array("netpoint");

Now, is the normal behavior usefull or not?

/Benno

MoYo

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From: Poitiers

Registered: 2004-09-13

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Re: networking_ports and automatic setting of ip address (using 0.7)

yes it was strange. I will correct in the code.
Auto update in that case is not really intelligent.

Maybe only update IP and MAC on links between a network item and other item like computer.
By not between 2 networking item.

Thanks.

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benno

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 7

Website

Re: networking_ports and automatic setting of ip address (using 0.7)

yes it was strange. I will correct in the code.
Auto update in that case is not really intelligent.

Maybe only update IP and MAC on links between a network item and other item like computer.
By not between 2 networking item.

Thanks.

What bugs me about this update-mechanism is that when i click on an interface i would not expect to see data of a connected interface as being the data of the device i am currently working on. Not even on a switch, at least i would not expect to be able to change the ip configuration of device X when viewing the  port information on device Y.

Maybe network items should not even have ip-data stored with their networking ports?

You can tell me if you have a change that needs testing.

/Benno