Thank you for the reply. I think the problem is with the Primary Failover PIX. Though I can assign it an ip address it does not have a mac address. When I debug arp I could see all the arp messages reaching the inside interface but it does not populate the arp table. The secondery firewall has an MAC address with the inside interface and works fine. Host can ping the firewall interface. This is what I posted again here. I am trying to break my head to get this going.
I have posted several posts here and tried to get a ping response from my PIX515E. I spent several hours with TAC and still no answer. Today I just discovered that my MAC address shows ffff.ffff.ffff. My silly question is that is this some security issue on the 515E?? I have another 515E here and it has a valid MAC address? Could this be a hardware issue? Is the MAC address have to be set statically? Any help would be appricated.
Interface Ethernet1 "inside", is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is i82559, BW 100 Mbps
Auto-Duplex(Full-duplex), Auto-Speed(100 Mbps)
MAC address ffff.ffff.ffff, MTU 1500
IP address 172.20.1.1, subnet mask 255.255.0.0
81242 packets input, 6874367 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
52 packets output, 4497 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets