You might consider the following:

use strict;
use warnings;

my %components = (
    COMP1 => {
        eth1    => "10.172.9.21/24",
        eth1_gw => "10.172.1.1",
        eth2    => "10.172.10.21/24",
    },
    COMP2 => {
        eth1 => "10.172.9.22/24",
        eth2 => "10.172.11.21/24",
    },
    COMP3 => {
        eth1 => "10.172.11.21/24",
        eth2 => "10.172.13.21/24",
        eth3 => "10.173.2.98/24",
    },
);


my @components = keys %components;

while ( @components > 1 ) {
    my $comp = shift @components;
    foreach my $a ( values %{$components{$comp}} ) {
        foreach my $b ( map { ( values %{$components{$_}} ) } @compone
+nts ) {
            compare( $a, $b );
        }
    }
}


sub compare {
    my ( $a, $b ) = @_;

    print "$a compared with $b\n";
}

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Or it might be more effective to reorganize your data:

use strict;
use warnings;

my %components = (
    COMP1 => {
        eth1    => "10.172.9.21/24",
        eth1_gw => "10.172.1.1",
        eth2    => "10.172.10.21/24",
    },
    COMP2 => {
        eth1 => "10.172.9.22/24",
        eth2 => "10.172.11.21/24",
    },
    COMP3 => {
        eth1 => "10.172.11.21/24",
        eth2 => "10.172.13.21/24",
        eth3 => "10.173.2.98/24",
    },
);

my %addresses;
foreach my $comp ( keys %components ) {
    foreach my $eth ( keys %{$components{$comp}} ) {
        push(@{$addresses{$components{$comp}{$eth}}}, "$comp:$eth");
    }
}

foreach my $address ( keys %addresses ) {
    print "$address: appears on " . join (', ', @{$addresses{$address}
+}) . "\n";
}

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The latter doesn't compare the addresses but it does let you easily identify which components have interfaces with the same address.

In reply to Re: Comparing hash values against other hash values by ig
in thread Comparing hash values against other hash values by carcassonne

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