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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I am having my hands full with stability issues and trying to drive all our traffic through our firewalls at our data center. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Add to that the fact that the Foundry FastIron’s do NOT allow me to set a GLOBAL STATIC ARP entry (what they call a FLOATING STATIC ARP on the BigIron RX-series…), except BY PORT – which is contrary to using anything like load balancers, H/A Application Delivery Controllers (aka: Citrix MPX9500 ADC’s), or in our case: Active/Active Firewall clusters. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cisco, Extreme Summit, etc – they all do the ARP {x} {IP-ADDRESS} {MAC-ADDRESS} (aka: FLOATING ARP) setting to set an IP against a specific MAC even on their entry level switches… <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Foundry goes one step too far on the FastIron: they force it against a specific PORT as well, and as I have to share a common ARP/MAC between my firewall ports for the Active-Active load-balancing H/A support on two boxes in parallel… I can’t do it properly without some serious hacking and hairpinning techniques, which is what I have done per another post I found on this list recently (it was specifically targeting Microsoft’s NLB support, but it was very similar to what I needed here). Seems to work ok, even though it ties up some extra ports and vlans to make it happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>So that’s the question I need to get answered, and I hope someone at Foundry/Brocade sees this as well… How can I set a FLOATING STATIC ARP on a FastIron, just like many other switch manufacturers do, and that I NEED to do in this kind of (very common) setup? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Will it eventually become available on FastIron or will I have no choice but to look at a BigIron for this feature? Or live with my hairpin hack?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Robert Toth<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Director of Information Technology Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>iPerceptions Inc<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>London - Montreal - New York - Toronto<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.iperceptions.com/"><span style='color:blue'>www.iperceptions.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. They are intended for the named recipient(s) only and are not to be communicated to anyone else without permission. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and do not make copies or disclose the contents to anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>