Hi,
* We have two ASA 5505's setup in transparent mode in a failover state
* We are having a problem with traffic bettwen the firewall and our datacenters internet backbone
* The problem seems to be a drop in packets / packet data (25% loss on 1,000 1Kb packets, 90% loss on 1,000 10Kb packets)
* We have basic firewall rules enabled without IPS / IDS at the moment to check if this was the problem
* The interfaces are running at 100mb full duplex and we have tried changing the duplex mode and negotion type without any success
* The CPU and Memory load seems to be in a normal range
* It seems to limit itself to 1.3M~ max thoughput when / if we can get traffic though
* Inbound traffic seems to be unaffected only outbound
* We have not set any QoS as you can't in transparent mode
* We have also tried disabling the logging and statistics without any luck
* The main bulk of traffic though the Firewall is HTTP / HTTPs but all services are affected by the same issue
* As the packet size increases, the amount loss increases
We need a Cisco guru, ideally UK based, or some help to find out the core problem.
Any suggestions?!
Many thanks,
Andy Twine
