Cisco routers used to do this, but they added a command to maintain fixed SNMP indexes. I don't know the command offhand, but it's a global. I'm surprised Juniper has made the same flub!
-mel At 5:15 PM +0100 9/12/02, Tim Streater wrote: >We are running mostly Juniper M160, about 20 of them. I have IM >3.6.1 under OS9 on a G4 (current up time for IM: 85 days). > >We tend to need to upgrade the router software from time to time, at >which times a routing engine restart changes all the ifIndex values. >IM is fairly good at matching up circuits to networks after such an >event, but it doesn't always get it right and sometimes, interfaces >just vanish. Unhiding hidden ones doesn't show up the lost sheep, >and command-k typically doesn't find them either. The only solution >seems to be to delete and re-add the device. This gets a bit old >after a while especially as all history data is lost too. > >1) Is this something which "should not be happening", or are there >any known problems in this area? > >2) Am I missing something simple as a work around? > >3) I believe I brought up before about being able to attach datasets >to interfaces (useful in a case where a line is upgraded), are there >any plans in this area? > >4) Anyone else have this problem or am I the only one in the universe? > >Cheers, > >___________________________________________________________________ > * * Tim Streater Network Engineer > * * > * Francis House > * 112 Hills Road Tel +44 1223 302992 > * Cambridge CB2 1PQ Fax +44 1223 303005 > D A N T E United Kingdom WWW http://www.dante.net >____________________________________________________________________ > > > >____________________________________________________________________ >Note: To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send email to: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________ Note: To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please send email to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks!
