XPost: comp.security.firewalls   
   From: dave-thorn@nodash.verizon.net.invalid   
      
   "Tim W"  wrote in message   
   news:4d60d73b.0312091321.3af54f88@posting.google.com...   
   > Hello:   
   >   
   > I've run into problems with our new sonic wall pro 330. My main   
   > problem is we are running it for a web hosting company which has   
   > machines with multiple IP addresses. Each network card in each machine   
   > has more than 1 IP address bound to it, for specific functions. In   
   > some cases some web sites get their own IP addresses which should be   
   > fine except sonic wall detects it as some sort of attack or IP spoof.   
   > I have talked with Sonic Wall's support and received very few answers   
   > other than it wont work with the latest firmware, or even the 2   
   > previous. I was told to go back to firmware dated over a year old now,   
   > which seems to be working but this is not a proper solution. I would   
   > imagine that a sonic wall could handle passing traffic to any IP   
   > address bound to a network card behind it, but it appears as though it   
   > resolves it to a MAC address, and will only pass it to the primary IP   
   > address of the machine.   
   >   
      
   Not that I know the Sonicwall or anything, but it seems to me that the MAC   
   addresses should be immaterial - I mean, what would happen if you had a   
   switch between the Sonicwall and the server farm?  Everything would have the   
   same MAC!   
      
   Dave   
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   No, not that Dave.  Not the other one, either.   
      
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