Mailing List Archive: wackamole and arp

wackamole and arp

Apr 16, 2004, 11:05 AM

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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?

Jay West

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jwest at kwcorp

Apr 16, 2004, 11:39 AM

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Can anyone elucidate:

PerlUseLib .
PerlUse example

What exactly do these do in the wackamole config file and what can be used
as arguments? (not a perl programmer here)

Jay

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jesus at omniti

Apr 16, 2004, 11:54 AM

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Jay West wrote:

>Can anyone elucidate:
>
>PerlUseLib .
>PerlUse example
>
>What exactly do these do in the wackamole config file and what can be used
>as arguments? (not a perl programmer here)
>
>
PerlUseLib is lile:
use lib '/path/to/perl/modules';

PerlUse is like:
use MyModule;

So, if you write a routine in perl called "doit" and place it in a
package in a file called MyModule.pm:

package MyModule;
sub doit {
printf STDERR "Called doir\n";
}
1;

And place that MyModule.pm file in: /opt/wackamole/perl, then you could do:

PerlUseLib /opt/wackamole/perl
PerlUse MyModule
RunDynamic MyModule::doit on up

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jesus at omniti

Apr 16, 2004, 11:57 AM

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Theo Schlossnagle wrote:

>
> PerlUseLib /opt/wackamole/perl
> PerlUse MyModule
> RunDynamic MyModule::doit on up
>
This tells wackamole to run the perl function doit from the module
MyModule in the event that a virtual interfa ce is brought up on the box.

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ben at algroup

Apr 19, 2004, 3:43 AM

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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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