Re: WacthGuard Firebox -- Crash

From: xyberpix (xyberpix_at_xyberpix.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

To: Jiju Susmer <jijususmer@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:26:02 +0000

Hi Jiju,

Are the boxes set up in a failover configuration? If so, are you running
the latest version of the Watchguard software on both nodes of the
cluster? I had this problem about 2 years ago, and an upgrade on both
boxes fixed the issue.

xyberpix

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:46 -0800, Jiju Susmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am providing remote support for few watchguard
> FireBox III's. For last few weeks on a regular basis
> I'm getting the following errors logged.
>
> 12/23/04 08:53:40 fail-over-standby[86] error getting
> /proc/net/mpfstats
> 12/23/04 08:53:40 fail-over-standby[86] error opening
> /ptmp/mpfstats
>
> somtimes
>
> 12/23/04 08:53:40 fail-over-standby[86] error getting
> /proc/net/mpfrules
>
> The activities I see logged be fore the not responding
> state are mainly automatic site blocking by kernal,
> and some times it also showed repeated subnet scans.
>
> If anyone has experienced this problem, or has any
> clue to solve this please respond as soon as
> podssible.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -- JS
>
>
>
>
>
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