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Dropped traffic detected by firewall


I have a CA monitoring server (on Win2003) that poll a HP-UX server on a
certain Tcp port to see if the HP-UX server is still listening on that port.

There's a firewall between the 2 servers & the firewall has been
reporting that the specific Tcp port's traffic was dropped with the
source being the Win2003 server & destination is the HP-Ux box

Though the HP-Ux box had been experiencing 100% CPU utilization
quite often, I was told a 100% CPU HP-Ux would not drop traffic.

The Win2003 CA box also monitors other servers on other ports
but firewall did not report such phenomenon.


I don't think there's any duplex/speed/auto-negotiation issue as
the outputs below show:

A check on the switch port that the Win2003 box connects to did
not reveal any abnormality (input/output errors, collisions, etc) as
"show interface" outputs issued 3 minutes apart below show:

#sh int gig 0/2
GigabitEthernet0/2 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is 0017.0e16.fb9a (bia 0017.0e16.fb9a)
  Description: Uplink-Downlink Win2003 box
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 16/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, media type is RJ45
  input flow-control is off, output flow-control is off
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input 00:00:04, output 00:00:00, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:01:38
  Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 63893000 bits/sec, 13693 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 210000 bits/sec, 69 packets/sec
     1455739 packets input, 850292957 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 3569 broadcasts (0 multicast)
     0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 watchdog, 3170 multicast, 0 pause input
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
     6819 packets output, 2415514 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

#sh int gig0/2
GigabitEthernet0/2 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is 0017.0e16.fb9a (bia 0017.0e16.fb9a)
  Description: Uplink-Downlink Win2003 box
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 17/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, media type is RJ45
  input flow-control is off, output flow-control is off
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input 00:00:26, output 00:00:01, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:05:31
  Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 68137000 bits/sec, 14602 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 215000 bits/sec, 69 packets/sec
     5040726 packets input, 2943850964 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 11982 broadcasts (0 multicast)
     0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 watchdog, 10627 multicast, 0 pause input
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
     24806 packets output, 9048669 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

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A check on the switch port that the HP-Ux box connects to did
not reveal any abnormality (input/output errors, collisions, etc) too
as "show interface" outputs issued 3 minutes apart below show:


#sh int gig 0/17
GigabitEthernet0/17 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is 0017.0e5a.2491 (bia 0017.0e5a.2491)
  Description: HP-UX box
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, media type is 10/100/1000BaseTX
  input flow-control is off, output flow-control is unsupported
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input never, output 00:00:01, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:02:51
  Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 598000 bits/sec, 268 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 321000 bits/sec, 270 packets/sec
     36085 packets input, 8695934 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 18 broadcasts (0 multicast)
     0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 watchdog, 17 multicast, 0 pause input
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
 --More--     36726 packets output, 5742743 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out


#sh int gig 0/17
GigabitEthernet0/17 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is 0017.0e5a.2491 (bia 0017.0e5a.2491)
  Description: HP-UX box
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, media type is 10/100/1000BaseTX
  input flow-control is off, output flow-control is unsupported
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input never, output 00:00:00, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:06:07
  Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 511000 bits/sec, 248 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 308000 bits/sec, 253 packets/sec
     81256 packets input, 18815380 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 39 broadcasts (0 multicast)
     0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
     0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 watchdog, 36 multicast, 0 pause input
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
 --More--     82681 packets output, 12864144 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out


What should I do next to diagnose this?
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You're right, the firewall blocked the traffic as there's no rules in it that
permit the traffic to pass thru.

I think too far
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ok