Auto-Deployment Setup—Configuring Network Routers

Before you enable the auto-deployment server and start configuring units via the PolicyCenter auto-deployment feature, the routers that will forward the auto-deployment messages must be correctly configured. Verify the following settings:

• Disable Proxy-ARP: An unconfigured PacketShaper may not be able to auto-deploy its correct gateway IP address if the network routers have Proxy-ARP enabled. Before you enable the auto-deployment server to send auto-deploy messages to unconfigured units, you must disable Proxy-ARP on all routers through which the auto-deploy messages will pass.
  
  
• Enable Network Broadcast Forwarding: If you do not specify a target host IP address for an auto-deploy unit entry, the auto-deployment server will send an auto-deploy message to the entire specified subnet. Routers running Cisco IOS 12 or later do not forward these messages by default, so you must enable network broadcast forwarding on routers in the subnet. If you cannot enable broadcast forwarding on all routers between PolicyCenter and the unconfigured unit (e.g., routers owned by your ISP), you must specify a target host IP address for that unit entry.

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