[c-nsp] Crypto and CEF

Rodney Dunn rodunn at cisco.com
Tue Jun 12 13:52:29 EDT 2007


On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:50:33PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:22:45AM -0700, David Barak wrote:
> > I first encountered "route to the (sub) interface" in
> > the context of frame-relay subinterfaces.  If there is
> > another route to that IP address (for instance, a
> > tie-down route, or something through another carrier),
> > when the interface goes down, 
> 
> For *point to point* interfaces, this does make very much sense.
> 
> For multipoint interfaces, adding routes without a next-hop IP address
> means "the router has to do ARP for every single destination" - and it
> will only work if there is a router on the other side that does proxy-ARP.
> 
> So this is a *baaaad* idea.
> 
> 
> (Cisco: would you PLEASE turn off proxy-arp in the default config?  It
> doesn't help anything - it just hides misconfigurations in other places,
> by making broken configurations "magically" work)


CSCec48142
Internally found moderate defect: Resolved (R)
Proxy-arp should no longer default to on


Integrated in  	12.2(18)SXE 12.2(25.04)S 12.0(29.01)S 12.3(09.11)T


> 
> gert
> 
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