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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Subject: Re: transparent bridge troubles?
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:18:22 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:01:47PM -0500, mdpeters wrote:
> Both host and target have no information about the bridge | firewall in the 
> middle.

the arp caches of hosts on either side of the firewall should have
entries for hosts on the other side though.  try and ping from a host
on one side of the firewall to a host on the other side of the firewall.
after the ping, type "arp -an" on the host you pinged from; if you don't
have an entry for the host you pinged--you have a bridge problem.  if
you do have an arp entry, but the ping didn't work--you have a firewall
problem.

-j 

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