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<h1 align="center">Proxy ARP</h1>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Proxy ARP allows you to insert a firewall in front of a set of servers
without changing their IP addresses and without having to re-subnet.</p>
<p>The following figure represents a Proxy ARP
environment.</p>
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<img src="images/proxyarp.png" width="444" height="397"></strong></p>
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<p align="left">Proxy ARP can be used to make the systems with addresses
130.252.100.18 and 130.252.100.19 appear to be on the upper (130.252.100.*)
subnet.&nbsp; Assuming that the upper firewall interface is eth0 and the
lower interface is eth1, this is accomplished using the following entries in
/etc/shorewall/proxyarp:</p>
<table border="2" cellpadding="2" style="border-collapse: collapse">
<tr>
<td><b>ADDRESS</b></td>
<td><b>INTERFACE</b></td>
<td><b>EXTERNAL</b></td>
<td><b>HAVEROUTE</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>130.252.100.18</td>
<td>eth1</td>
<td>eth0</td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>130.252.100.19</td>
<td>eth1</td>
<td>eth0</td>
<td>no</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Be sure that the internal systems (130.242.100.18 and 130.252.100.19&nbsp;
in the above example) are not included in any specification in
/etc/shorewall/masq or /etc/shorewall/nat.</p>
<p>Note that I've used an RFC1918 IP address for eth1 - that IP address is
irrelevant. </p>
<p>The lower systems (130.252.100.18 and 130.252.100.19) should have their
subnet mask and default gateway configured exactly the same way that the
Firewall system's eth0 is configured.</p>
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<p align="left">A word of warning is in order here. ISPs typically configure
there routers with a long ARP cache timeout. If you move a system from
parallel to your firewall to behind your firewall with Proxy ARP, it will
probably be HOURS before that system can communicate with the internet. You
can call your ISP and ask them to purge the stale ARP cache entry but many
either can't or won't purge individual entries. You can determine if your
ISP's gateway ARP cache is stale using ping and tcpdump. Suppose that we
suspect that the gateway router has a stale ARP cache entry for 130.252.100.19.
On the firewall, run tcpdump as follows:</div>
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<pre> tcpdump -nei eth0 icmp</pre>
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<p align="left">Now from 130.252.100.19, ping the ISP's gateway (which we will
assume is 130.252.100.254):</div>
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<pre> ping 130.252.100.254</pre>
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<p align="left">We can now observe the tcpdump output:</div>
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<pre> 13:35:12.159321 <u>0:4:e2:20:20:33</u> 0:0:77:95:dd:19 ip 98: 130.252.100.19 &gt; 130.252.100.254: icmp: echo request (DF)
13:35:12.207615 0:0:77:95:dd:19 <u>0:c0:a8:50:b2:57</u> ip 98: 130.252.100.254 &gt; 130.252.100.177 : icmp: echo reply</pre>
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<p align="left">Notice that the source MAC address in the echo request is
different from the destination MAC address in the echo reply!! In this case
0:4:e2:20:20:33 was the MAC of the firewall's eth0 NIC while 0:c0:a8:50:b2:57
was the MAC address of the system on the lower left. In other words, the gateway's ARP cache still
associates 130.252.100.19 with the NIC in that system rather than with the firewall's
eth0.</div>
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<p><font size="2">Last updated 8/11/2002 - </font><font size="2">
<a href="support.htm">Tom
Eastep</a></font> </p>
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