PIX 515E looses internet connection

Our PIX 515E looses its internet connection randomly. If we reboot it and
it will go again after it comes back up.



Any ideas

Thanks in adavance

Teason

Teason

In article <>,
Teason <> wrote:
:Our PIX 515E looses its internet connection randomly. If we reboot it and
:it will go again after it comes back up.

What software release are you using?

Is it possible that you are running out of memory? How are the load
and number of connections at the time of the loss? Is just the
outside lost, or does it hang?

Darn, I can't remember at the moment if the 515E was susceptable to
the hang problem, or if it was just the 515. Check out the
"field advisories".
--
"[...] it's all part of one's right to be publicly stupid." -- Dave Smey

We are running Version 6.2 w/ 32 mb ram
It seems to just hang but I will try monitor it more.

Thanks


"Walter Roberson" <> wrote in message
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> In article <>,
> Teason <> wrote:
> :Our PIX 515E looses its internet connection randomly. If we reboot it
and
> :it will go again after it comes back up.
>
> What software release are you using?
>
> Is it possible that you are running out of memory? How are the load
> and number of connections at the time of the loss? Is just the
> outside lost, or does it hang?
>
> Darn, I can't remember at the moment if the 515E was susceptable to
> the hang problem, or if it was just the 515. Check out the
> "field advisories".
> --
> "[...] it's all part of one's right to be publicly stupid." -- Dave
Smey

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:00:22 -0600, Teason wrote:

> Our PIX 515E looses its internet connection randomly. If we reboot it
> and it will go again after it comes back up.
>
>
>
> Any ideas
>
> Thanks in adavance
>
> Teason

Next time it fails, try to clear xlate instead of reboot. If that works,
then you will need to look at "show xlate" and "show conn" during outage
to see if there are excessive connections/translations. There are/were
bugs with conn/xlates not timing out, didnt notice what version you are
running in your post.

I had the very same problem, but was using PIX OS 6.3.1 and a tunnel to
6.2.1 which caused it to go offline every 30-50 minutes. Here is was a bug
in the PIX OS. TAC told me to upgrade and it hasn't went down since.




"Teason" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Our PIX 515E looses its internet connection randomly. If we reboot it and
> it will go again after it comes back up.
>
>
>
> Any ideas
>
> Thanks in adavance
>
> Teason
>
>

Hi had this exact same problem with my PIX 515 about a year ago and found
out that Cisco recalled several PIX 515s. They overnighted me a new PIX and
everything has been fine ever since. Here is a link to the field notice
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/...800949c7.shtml.
Hope this helps.

"James Parks" <> wrote in message
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>
> I had the very same problem, but was using PIX OS 6.3.1 and a tunnel to
> 6.2.1 which caused it to go offline every 30-50 minutes. Here is was a
bug
> in the PIX OS. TAC told me to upgrade and it hasn't went down since.
>
>
>
>
> "Teason" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Our PIX 515E looses its internet connection randomly. If we reboot it
and
> > it will go again after it comes back up.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any ideas
> >
> > Thanks in adavance
> >
> > Teason
> >
> >
>
>