topic Re: PIX rebooting in Network Security

PIX rebooting

Mohammed Faiz Mohiuddin — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:47:05 GMT

What could be the reasons for a PIX 535 device to reboot itself 2 to 3 times in 24hrs. Even tried with a spare PIX device and still the same. It used to work fine a month back. Any help on this?

Re: PIX rebooting

oabduo983 — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:17:11 GMT

Dear Faiz,

Have you tried upgrading the IOS to the latest?

If this does not work, you can post your configuration (exclude the public IP's and the encrypted password)!

Regards,

Osama

Re: PIX rebooting

jstrine — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:54:56 GMT

Is there any output from the "show crashinfo" command?

Re: PIX rebooting

Mohammed Faiz Mohiuddin — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:07:55 GMT

i believe that 'show crashinfo' is available in IOS 7, i am using 6.1

any known issues here.

Re: PIX rebooting

Mohammed Faiz Mohiuddin — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:43:56 GMT

I need to add something more, there are couple of other firewalls that has restarted since 2 days. Is there some kind of a bug in IOS 6.1-3 thats causing this. Any helping advice welcome.

Re: PIX rebooting

oabduo983 — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:05:42 GMT

Faiz,

There are few bugs in 6.3(3) that causes the system to reload or crash. This includes the run out of memory, VPN configuration, authentication, ...etc...I would really advise you to upgrade your IOS to 6.3(5) and if applicable (check memory requirements) upgrade to 7.0(4) or 7.1(1)...

If you want a step by step troubleshoot, please post the config file. Exclude the public ips and passwords

Regards

Re: PIX rebooting

srue — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:38:20 GMT

is failover configured? is it part of a failover set?

Re: PIX rebooting

davidecooper1967 — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:10:42 GMT

Without really knowing how it is configured I can just point you to a few bugs to see if they may be the culprit

CSCdv57570

Pix crashes when vpn client 3.1 connects

CSCdw64258

Pix crash with traceback triggered by uauth

CSCdx89579

PIX 525 Crashes intermittently

CSCdz07673

PIX - SSH via CW2000 will crash PIX during Inventory Update

CSCdx35823

Unexpected reaction to TACACS+/RADIUS - HTTP authentication

CSCeb01565

PIX crash upon receipt of malformed IPSec/ESP packet - manual keying

There are several more. I would upgrade if possible.

Re: PIX rebooting

Mohammed Faiz Mohiuddin — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:32:55 GMT

yes failover is configured. btw i have upgraded the PIX OS to 7.0 and the problem seems to be solved. the PIX is not rebooting from then. the PIX seems to be behaving normally now. thanks for the help guys.