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Losing MAC address of Pix?

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pixboy

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Nov 21, 2001
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In the last couple weeks, several inside users (including me) have lost Internet connectivity. In troubleshooting this on my own machine (Win2K Server), I did an arp -a and found that the MAC address for the Pix (the default gateway) was wrong. In the one instance where I dug deeper and found which MAC address it had listed, I found that the incorrect MAC address belonged to the Cisco 7200 router which is on the outside of the Pix 520 we have. Doing "arp -d 192.168.1.1" and then pinging the Pix's inside interface did the trick.

We have four HP 4000M switches and one HP 800T switch in our network. I made sure ABC was disabled on all of them (it was enabled on some but not others before this) and everything seemed OK for a couple days. I'd been moving some cables around on the switches when it first happened, so we figured that was the cause. After about a week, I enabled ABC on all the switches again. Everything was fine until today, when a couple of us couldn't get out. I disabled ABC on all the switches and deleted my arp entry for the inside interface, and that worked again.

I can't seem to find any information online that appears relevant to this. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Dan
 
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