[c-nsp] Rebooting PIX

[Charles D. Galler Jr.]

It is not a power supply issue. I have two 515 PIXes that have ran fine for
several years and in the past month have started to reboot randomly. I have
upgraded one to the latest 6.3.4. It happened several times over this past
weekend and the traffic going through the PIXes where low. Connection counts
were small and traffic to the interfaces was low as well.

I have googled for the problem and found a few people that are having a
similar problem. One of them was on this list, however the thread just
stopped without a conclusion.

Thanks for the help.
Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:tedm at toybox.placo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 12:12 AM
To: Charles D. Galler Jr.; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Rebooting PIX


We have a customer with a pix 506 that every once in a while it
freezes up.  power cycling it makes it run again.  I am positive
the problem is bad power.  They had a previous PIX in there that
one day the power supply up and died.  Techs that go out there
claim the power supply is hot to the touch.  Of course the customer
is unconvinced since no other network gear has problems.

We have another customer with a network of 50 of these pixes and
I've never had a power supply die on any of them.

With pix 516 I would make sure your running latest firmware, and make
sure that you don't have a machine behind the pix that is infected
and spewing to every host on the Internet. A show xlate at the command
prompt should tell you this.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net]On Behalf Of Charles D. Galler
>Jr.
>Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:53 AM
>To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>Subject: [c-nsp] Rebooting PIX
>
>
>Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone have a solution?
>
>I am having this same issue with two PIX 515 firewalls.
>
>Thanks,
>Charles
>
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