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Hi Guys,
I'm having an issue figuring out how to plug a physical device in a virtual design. I'm trying to plug a webfilter inline between my switch and firewall so it can filter traffic transparently. The problem is that my firewall is virtual run...
Thanks a million Paul. This bridge worked perfectly and we're running with our Physical Device in-line right now!
The 3Com OS commands were hard to find because in Cisco it's an enable and 3Com drop:
bpdu-drop any
Hope this thread helps others ...
It took me some time to find the comment which is ...
bpdu-drop any
Now ports are no longer discarding and I can see the devices in the ARP Tables.
I'll give the barracuda a try soon.
You're a superstar Paul!
Makes sense. Port 2/0/18 shows as discarding...
0 GigabitEthernet2/0/17 DESI FORWARDING NONE 0 GigabitEthernet2/0/18 BACK DISCARDING NONE
These HP/3COM switches are so complicated vs Cisco - I'm not quite sure how to get the BPDU filter working.
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That's what I had just figured out but I can't actually plug the barracuda yet so I basically looped a cable from a switch port to another. So here is what I have but I still don't see the FW appearing in the switches ARP or the switch appearing in ...
Hi Paul,
So I'm in the process of trying this out but I'm stuck so perhaps you can help?
I haven't plugged the Barracuda device in yet because I want to try the VLAN bridging before I do.
I'm in a test environment with the following:
vlan 222
vl...