Proxy-Arp problems on Solaris

[andrewbo]

Hi

My experience with FW1 R62 on Solaris 10 has been about 5 months. One problem I always seem to encounter is the one of proxy-arps. I have had no training so my problem might be one of experience. Please help me!

We have to make an internal server available to a external party. We are automatically natting it but arp -a does not show the address being publicized.
I have tried adding a arp -s <externalip> <macaddress> P and it gets entered but not publicized. Any ideas I can try?

I have been told that this is a problem for Solaris but that I have problems believing. Any comments on this would be welcome

Thanks

[antonyso88]

You are using Auto NAT. did you check the "automatic ARP configuration"?

[andrewbo]

Hi

Yes, "automatic arp configuration" is checked.

Out of desperation I changed the external ip address that is available and it now shows a publicised entry when I do a "fw ctl arp".

It also shows as publicised when doin a "arp -a". Is this problem or normal behaviour?

I have entered a static route for the device as well. Would this confuse the issue?

[antonyso88]

If you have checked "Translate Dest. on client side", you don't need to add static route.