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RE: (ASCEND) firewall probs?
At 10:29 AM 9/14/98 , Rob Myers wrote:
>Proxy arp is enabled by default (why??)
Having been around since when this was first implemented, I can answer that.
When the Pipelines were first introduced - as home/home-office units, it was
determined that the best default configuration was to assume the home-user
was pretty unfamiliar with routing and most likely connected a single host to
the Pipeline. The P50-HX in particular was used most frequently this way.
To avoid having to worry about the host understanding routing and subnets,
the developers were asked to make proxy-ARP as the default behavior. Since
we get blasted whenever we change defaults, ;-), and the save/restore config
would not work cleanly - it has been deemed "best" to leave it that way.
The documentation clearly states this, but I guess it's been a bit of a
headache for a while now. I know that tech support have asked for the
default to be changed (I wonder why :).
Kevin Smith (kevin@ascend.com)
Ascend Communications...
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