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SRX5308 secondary IP port forwarding
Just got a brand new SRX5308 to replace a dependable but somewhat underpowered FVS336g. I spent the past few days trying to get it to do simple port forwarding on a secondary IP. I tried 3.0.7-29 an...
I found the problem yesterday. I'm kind of guessing but the router and modem may need to announce to each other using ARP. Just swapping in the router without also rebooting the modem won't force ARP announcements. Imagine my chagrin when I rebooted both the modem and router and voila everything worked! It just hadn't occurred to me to reboot the modem since I've never had to. Also I'm guessing the "Secondary Address" thing works differently from FVS336g in that SRX5308 doesn't announce the new IP when I add it.
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