Client Gateway Address in DHCP - Router or Firewall?
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Posted by Scott Townsend on March 1, 2006, 11:00 am
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connected all of the remote offices together. Now we are using the internet and VPN to connect remote offices, the Core Router is still there and only connects 1 other office. Should I change the Default Gateway to be the PIX, or should I leave it set to the router? Seems like it would eliminate 1 hop, as most of the traffic is the internet and or the other offices. Thanks, Scott<- | ||||||||||
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Posted by Merv on March 1, 2006, 1:39 pm
Please log in for more thread options I would think that it should be the device that is on the same subnet as the PC's. I do not know if the PIX supports proxy-arp, but if you are using that then I would highly recommend you eliminate it. | ||||||||||
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Posted by Scott Townsend on March 2, 2006, 1:46 am
Please log in for more thread options The PIX's internal Interfaces on the same subnet as the core router. So they are both on the same subnet. The Core router's Default gateway is the PIX, since its the connection to the internet. I was using the router as the Default gateway before as it was the guy who knew where are the other subnets were dynamically and was connected to them. Now that we only have a few subnet and most are connected via VPN. I was thinking about just routing all the clients to the PIX. Thanks, Scott<-  | ||||||||||
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Posted by Merv on March 2, 2006, 3:05 am
Please log in for more thread options If you use the PIX then the traffic from the client must be outbound only as the PIX will not hairpin turn a packet. You may end of having a loss of connectivity if you use the PIX as a default gateway You are probably better off leaving it the way it is | ||||||||||
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Posted by Scott Townsend on March 2, 2006, 1:23 pm
Please log in for more thread options Great, thank you!Scott<0 | ||||||||||
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> as the PC's.
> I do not know if the PIX supports proxy-arp, but if you are using that
> then I would highly recommend you eliminate it.
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