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I'm seeing long delays transferring files via FTP. The connection is initiated from the external IP. I'm hoping for some insight into these PIX logs.
Internal address is x.x.x.x
External Address is y.y.y.y
Firewall interface is z.z.z.z
-Firstly, there's an inbound Build operation from the External address to Internal Address.
3/27/2009 6:00 Friday 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM z.z.z.z Built [message removed] PIX-6-302013 PIX 6 302013 TCP y.y.y.y (empty) x.x.x.x (empty) (empty) 22 50559 outside dmz 50559_tcp
-The connection is closed after 16 mins
27/Mar/2009 06:16:24 z.z.z.z Teardown [message removed] PIX-6-302014 PIX 6 302014 TCP x.x.x.x (empty) y.y.y.y (empty) (empty) 50559 22 dmz outside 22_tcp TCP Reset-I
-Then I see two identical DENYs from x.x.x.x to y.y.y.y (same timestamp as the TEARDOWN)
27/Mar/2009 06:16:24 z.z.z.z Deny [message removed] PIX-6-106015 PIX 6 106015 TCP x.x.x.x (empty) y.y.y.y (empty) (empty) 50559 22 (empty) (empty) 22_tcp RST
27/Mar/2009 06:16:24 z.z.z.z Deny [message removed] PIX-6-106015 PIX 6 106015 TCP x.x.x.x (empty) y.y.y.y (empty) (empty) 50559 22 (empty) (empty) 22_tcp RST
Is this normal operation? Or is the connection being reset before the FTP transfer has completed?
Thanks,
John
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by: JFrederick29Posted on 2009-04-22 at 04:57:37ID: 24203710
By default the Firewall won't tear down a TCP connection unless it is idle for 60 minutes so the Firewall isn't tearing the connection down after 16 minutes before the FTP transfer completes. The server closed the connection by sending 3 TCP RST's. The Firewall received the first RST in which it will immediately tears down the connection. The connection is now torn down and so the other two RST's from the server result in the last two messages (Deny no connection). This is normal operation. The Firewall is simply responding to what it is seeing from the servers.