RE: where should I start? help!

From: Jane Han (janehan22_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/15/03

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    Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:19:42 -0700 (PDT)
    To: Ben Hicks <ben@sequenced.net>, security-basics@securityfocus.com
    
    

    Ben,

    I appreciate your answer. I enabled the IP accounting
    and the IP accounting only shows the destination
    address as public address (NAT). Is there a way that
    I can trace this public IP address (NAT) to
    the internal private IP address?

    Thanks,

    Jane

    --- Ben Hicks <ben@sequenced.net> wrote:
    > The interface is very heavily utilised on the
    > receiving of information - i.e
    > persons downloading.
    >
    > Your interface (at the time of the snapshit) was
    > very heavily utilised.
    > 188/255 RX suggest that your link is about 75%
    > utilised, which is very high.
    >
    > There are of course many other things that could be
    > attirbuting to the
    > problem, but I would start here.
    >
    > You could perhaps enable ip accounting to find out
    > which IP addresses are
    > accessing the most amount of information.
    >
    > HTH
    >
    > Ben.
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Jane Han [mailto:janehan22@yahoo.com]
    > Sent: 08 July 2003 15:41
    > To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: where should I start? help!
    >
    >
    > Hi, all
    >
    > I am relatively new to this field. We have full T1
    > but the internet speed is very slow.
    > Sometimes it's even slower than dial-up speed when
    > downloading files.
    > E1 E0 E0 s0
    > Switch --- PIX ------Cisco 2600
    > Router------Internet
    >
    > (E1 and E0 are Ethernet Interface and S0 is serial
    > interface) (please see the following status on s0)
    >
    > Serial0/0 is up, line protocol is up
    > Hardware is QUICC Serial
    > Internet address is X.X.X.X/30
    > MTU 1500 bytes, BW 2048 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec,
    > reliability 255/255, txload 26/255, rxload
    > 188/255
    > Encapsulation HDLC, loopback not set
    > Keepalive set (10 sec)
    > Last input 00:00:02, output 00:00:00, output hang
    > never
    > Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
    > Input queue: 0/75/9199/0 (size/max/drops/flushes);
    > Total output drops: 3307
    > Queueing strategy: weighted fair
    > Output queue: 0/1000/64/3307 (size/max
    > total/threshold/drops)
    > Conversations 0/57/256 (active/max active/max
    > total)
    > Reserved Conversations 0/0 (allocated/max
    > allocated)
    > 30 second input rate 1510000 bits/sec, 235
    > packets/sec
    > 30 second output rate 214000 bits/sec, 173
    > packets/sec
    > 76598509 packets input, 1523011153 bytes, 0 no
    > buffer
    > Received 104544 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants,
    > 0
    > throttles
    > 1 input errors, 0 CRC, 1 frame, 0 overrun, 0
    > ignored, 0 abort
    > 66685034 packets output, 4044743843 bytes, 0
    > underruns
    > 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface
    > resets
    > 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers
    > swapped out
    > 0 carrier transitions
    > DCD=up DSR=up DTR=up RTS=up CTS=up
    >
    > I checked the S0 interface status on the internet
    > router. What info does the above indicate?
    > What does input and output packets mean in case
    > internal users download files from internet?
    >
    > I really do not know how to find out where all
    > traffic
    > are from? I bet there are lots of downloads
    > from internet. Where should I start?
    >
    > BTW, we have one block class C public address. But
    > the PIX only use 30 for NAT and one
    > global pool address:
    > global (outside) 1 x.x1.x2.201-x.x1.x2.230
    > global (outside) 1 x.x1.x2.200
    >
    > Could this cause the slowness on internet speed
    > also?
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Jane
    >
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