[nsp] Cisco 1720 or above Firewall using DHCP outside

Bruce Pinsky bep at whack.org
Thu Nov 20 17:22:32 EST 2003


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Niels Bakker wrote:

| * cgucker at cv.net (Charles H. Gucker) [Thu 20 Nov 2003, 22:41 CET]:
| [..]
|
|>ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Ethernet1
|>
|>any questions? :)
|
|
| Yes.  Doesn't the above statement mean that the router performs an
| ARP request for any destination it's trying to reach?  Sounds like
| concentrated evil to me, and it would depend on "ip proxy-arp" to be
| enabled in the upstream router, which - although default - is not a given.
|

Yes.

My guess is that even though his provider hands out a DHCP address that the
gateway address is static and could be configured in the route statement.

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bep

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