Spot on that was my next response :-)

2009/9/8 Dave Craddock <[email protected]>

>  Sorry hit the send button before I finished
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> When you do the no ip routing it doesn’t stop the router being a layer3
> device it just stops it routing traffic to unknown networks if you are on
> interface 1 you can still ping an address on interface 2 but you can’t route
> traffic from a host on network 1 to a host on network 2.
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> To make the router into a bridge you need to use bridge groups on the
> interfaces that you want to bridge together and then tell the router what
> you want to bridge i.e bridge ip route ipx etc
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>
> Dave
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>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Kingsley Charles
> *Sent:* 08 September 2009 11:40
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] ASA support of trunking
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>
> My topology
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> (host routerA) 1841 ---------- L2 1841 L2  -------------- G 0/1(inside) ASA
> (outside) G 0/0 ------------outside world ---------- telnet server host
> (router)
>                                            (switch)
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Kingsley Charles <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
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> I have a host routerA connected to a switch port of 1841 (access vlan 6)
> and other port (access vlan 6) is connected to the ASA (inside g0/1). The
> ASA is connected to the outside world
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> through g0/0 (outside).
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> I have configured PAT on the ASA.
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> I have disabled "ip routing" on the ASA, such that it has switching
> functionality alone.
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> Now I am trying to make telnet connection from the  host routerA to a
> host in the outside world but I get the following error message on the
> router.
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> % Connection refused by remote host
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> I am able to ping the inside interface of the ASA from the host routerA.
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> The PAT is not happening and the ASA is refusing the connection.
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> If I remove the switch (1841) and connect the host routerA (from L3
> interface) directly to ASA inside interface, the PAT is happening and I am
> to telnet.
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> I am observing that when I use L2 ports, the connectivity doesn't go
> through the ASA.
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> I even tried converting the ASA inside interfaace to a trunk and making the
> switch port into a trunk but still I see the same problem.
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> For both cases using inside interface in access mode and trunk mode, ASA
> refuses the connection.
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> What could be the problem?
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> With regards
>
> Kings
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