

with static ARP entries it may ping for a few minutes then drop completely from the firewall but from other PCs on the network it still responds.Ģ) on packet captures for the NSA 2400 (old device) the ping trace from the firewall to AS400 goes 1-packet Generated by source 2-packet Consumed (by firewall) 3-packet Forwarded to AS400 so in the packet capture on the 2600 it is not forwarding the packets on the NSA 2600.ģ) The AS400 has a single NIC with virtual interfaces configured so it is technically a single interface. Oh, and we started this ordeal with Dell Powerconnect switches and were told they were an issue (by Sonicwall) so we bought HPs :-)Īny thoughts, advice or even a direction to look into would be appreciated as we have beat our heads on keyboards for a while, and spent hours on the phone with Dell/Sonicwall "support".ġ) correct. We also tried setting the interface MAC addresses on the NSA 2600 to the same as the 2400. We have cleared the ARP cache on the AS400, this is the second NSA 2600 device as the first was RMA'ed after being factory reset 3 times and even testing the settings imported from the 2400. We have run packet captures and find that ping requests from the Sonicwall NSA 2600 are 'generated' then 'consumed' but sometimes not forwarded. Now if we leave the x4 (second LAN interface) unplugged then the x.x.10.4 and x.x.10.6 will appear in the ARP entries initially. We have tried adding static ARP entries for them and the pings perform abnormally in that they will respond for a period of time then start dropping off one IP at a time. Upon plugging in all the interfaces, the ARP table starts filling up with the devices on the LAN segments. The behavior we are seeing has stumped Dell/Sonicwall engineers and so I will describe it as best as I can here. This configuration was setup by a vendor for the AS400 and the y.y.16.0 subnet is for replication to be routed out of the x2 ISP #2 interface The IP addresses are on the LAN segments and are as follows: x.x.10.4 x.x.10.6 y.y.16.22

The main server we are seeing routing issues with is an IBM AS400 with multiple IPs configured through virtual interfaces on its NIC. X0 and x4 are plugged into an HP Procurve 2920-48G-PoE+ switch and the server is on another HP Procurve 2920-24G switch plugged directly into the other. NSA 2600 interfaces: x0 - LAN IP x.x.10.223 x1 - WAN ISP #1 x2 - WAN ISP #2 x3 - WAN ISP #3 and x4 - LAN IP y.y.16.10 Below is a rough idea of the configuration: We've never had an issue with any routing until we "upgraded" to a new NSA 2600 device. We have a Sonicwall NSA 2400 that has been in service for some years now.
