Rich Wales wrote: > > I would also have thought (possibly naively?) that even if there had > been a stale ARP cache issue, it wouldn't have affected things if I > were originating connections from my firewall (as opposed to outside > hosts trying to connect to me).
That naive assumption is incorrect. How do you think responses to your outgoing packets could reach your system if they were being sent to the wrong link-layer address? -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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