Re: wackamole and arp

Jay West wrote:

> Theo, looks like a no-go on the SNMP approach. According to cisco, there is
> no SNMP setting that will cause the PIX to clear it's arp cache. They said
> there's only 3 ways the arp cache will clear on a PIX:
> 
> 1) Reboot the PIX
> 2) Let arp entries expire as per the arp timeout setting (and if set to less
> than 60 seconds, the pix will loose packets)
> 3) Manually type a "clear arp" command on the PIX
> 
> Greaaaat. So I am left with cobbling together an expect script that will let
> each machine in the cluster log into the pix and do a clear arp command.
> Yucky Yucky solution, but I can't think of anything else. I hate having
> cleartext password to my pix inside a script. Anyone have any other
> thoughts?

Sell the PIX and use something good instead?

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