[c-nsp] 7204VXR Help

[Anton Kapela]

On Mar 20, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Jimmy Nguyen wrote:

> ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 FastEthernet0/0

Unless your upstream provider/router/etc on fa0/0 does proxy-arp (which they should *not* -- providers are not responsible for glueing together busted routing on ethernet!) for all non local addresses, your router will be unable to forward bits anywhere, which is what you describe in your posting.

There's no IP next hop provided in your static route, therefore the layer-2 adjacency isn't created, and your router simply cannot determine where to address the new ethernet frame. So, toss in an IP next hop, see if it works.

You can keep the interface specified in the router (to ensure that you never forward to another IP nexthop out any other interface), but, I can't see any reason you'd need it.

-Tk