So you are trying to reach a  remote network located on the outside of the ASA 
beyond the outside router  from the ASA itself?  Is this correct?
 
Are you trying to  ping from the ASA and not getting any response back?

Thanks and regards

Yogesh Gawankar


--- On Mon, 9/13/10, Mack, David A (Dave) <[email protected]> wrote:


From: Mack, David A (Dave) <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] ASA ARP Inspection
To: "'Kingsley Charles'" <[email protected]>
Cc: "OSL Security" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:51 AM








Kingsley,
                The issue is with the ASA itself. I have static ARPs on the ASA 
for the router on the inside and the router on the outside. I also have static 
ARPs on each of the routers for the other router. The routers are working just 
fine. In this scenario, the ASA only has a default route pointed to the IP 
Address of the outside router. It should not have to ARP for any other remote 
networks beyond the outside router, but rather forward to the MAC address of 
the “default” gateway.  However the ASA instead of using it’s default route to 
the outside router and static ARP for that router, ARPs for a remote network. 
The inside router also has a default route and static ARP for the outside 
router and it works fine. To summarize, the ASA is insisting on ARPing for 
remote networks, even though it has a static default route and a static ARP 
entry for the next hop of that default route.  That ARP is what is failing ARP 
inspection.
 
Thanks!
Dave
 

From: Kingsley Charles [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 12:39 PM
To: Mack, David A (Dave)
Cc: OSL Security
Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] ASA ARP Inspection
 
Are you telling that the ARP inspection fails when you try to reach the remote 
address from the ASA or from the router inside? Did you add static arp for the
remote IP address and the next hop router's mac address


With regards
Kings

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Mack, David A (Dave) <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello everyone!

I ran into an issue with ASA ARP inspection and would like to know if I am 
missing something and ask if anyone else has seen this behavior? In a nutshell, 
if you want to do ARP inspection to prevent MitM attacks you can enable ARP 
inspection with static ARP entries and combine that with no-flood to tighten it 
up. For the routers on either side of the ASA, you will also need static ARP 
entries. So in a practice lab, I did exactly that and the routers on either 
side were fine. I was able forward traffic between them just fine, however it 
appears as if the ASA itself is stupid. I had configured a management IP on the 
Transparent sub-net, and configured a default route to one of the routers on 
the outside interface. What happened was that the ASA will ARP for the 
destination even though there is a static route with the next hop already there 
and an ARP for the next-hop. The router on the outside interface be nice and 
will proxy-arp respond, but ARP
 inspection will fail. If I disa
 ble proxy-arp on the outside router, the ASA's arp just goes unanswered and 
the ASA still cannot reach anything.  Has anyone seen this?

Also, I ran across a potential time bomb, the router on the inside was a switch 
using a SVI interface. When I rebooted it to do some validations, the MAC 
address for the SVI interface changed! This broke my static arp entry for that 
interface. I don't seem to recall a way to statically assign a mac address to a 
SVI.

Thanks!
Dave
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