[c-nsp] FTP Problem - Cisco ASA Box

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Thu Aug 31 00:54:25 EDT 2006


On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> Looks like you modified your policy-maps from the defaults, so try
> adding an inspect ftp to your policy-map and see if that helps.

FWIW, Cisco IOS Firewall's FTP inspection breaks (throughput degraded 
to a couple of dozen kilobytes per second) if you're using large TCP 
receive buffers (e.g., Linux kernel >=2.6.17) so watch out if you're 
using it.  A case has been opened but I don't know its status.

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