Re: Sonicwall Answering ARP requests

From: Chris Comley (ccomley_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/01/04

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    Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:30:23 +0100

    jimhill97@yahoo.com (Jhill) wrote:

    >We have a Sonicwall pro 4060 that is answering ARP requests on it's
    >LAN port for servers on the LAN.
    >So it is acting as an ARP proxy for requests from servers on it's LAN
    >subnet for other machines on it's LAN subnet.
    >It is running 2.5E and I noticed a static route is automatically added
    >that routes all LAN traffic from the LAN Subent through the LAN
    >interface.
    >
    >Does/would disabling the ARP bridging option resolve this problem?
    >What does this option do on the Sonicwall diag page?

    Not seen this effect. Most strange. Are you running in "transparent"
    mode? 

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Wizards Ltd www.wizards.co.uk
UK supplier of Sonicwall, Watchguard, Zywall.
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