[c-nsp] Rebooting PIX

[Charles D. Galler Jr.]

I have two PIXes that are having this problem.

PIX1: Running 6.2(2), no SIP. Worked fine for years, however in the past
couple months it has started rebooting randomly.

PIX1: Was running 6.2(2), recently upgraded to 6.3(4). Running SIP. Worked
fine for years, however in the past couple months it has started rebooting
randomly.

I am attaching the crash files from both PIXes.

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott McGrath [mailto:mcgrath at fas.harvard.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:55 AM
To: Charles D. Galler Jr.
Cc: 'Ted Mittelstaedt'; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Rebooting PIX



Are your users using SIP.   There is a DDTS out for SIP session initiation
causing a reload also a malformed IPSec session can cause a reload in
versions before 6.2(3)

                            Scott C. McGrath

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Charles D. Galler Jr. wrote:

> 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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