[racktables-users] Re: site network vlan mapping

  • From: Oscar Kene <oscar@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:46:43 +0200

Yes, exactly. I know this is not optimal but it is used like this where I
am. Any suggestions on how to solve this?

/Oscar

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Tyler J. Wagner <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> VLAN support is based by domain, which can be any text string you want,
> including a site name. IPv4 addresses are global, however. Do you mean you
> use the same RFC 1918 private IP space at each site?
>
> Regards,
> Tyler
>
> On 2012-08-20 13:55, Oscar Kene wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm in a situation where I need to implement some kind of datacenter
> > documentation system. So far Racktables looks like it fits the part. One
> > thing stops me from moving forward right now though.
> >
> > In my environment I have many sites and offices. All the offices use the
> > same VLAN structure and addresses despite being both layer2 and layer3
> > separated, so VLan X and address Y exists on several offices locally. So
> > some kind of SITE:NETWORK:VLAN mapping is needed. As far as I can see
> this
> > is not possible in Racktables? I've seen an old thread from 2010 that
> > discusses this but the outcome of that was kind of nothing.
> >
> > Have Racktables support for the above or plan to have it?
>
> --
> "Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the
> wrong tool for every job."
>    -- Bruce Eckel
>

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