PIX 925 Failover continuously resets itself

admin_2 · ‎01-14-2003

We have a pair of PIX 525 (v6.2.2) set up as a failover pair with Serial + crossover LAN failover cables providing the conversation between the two, and various other interfaces providing network connectivity (4FE, 2xGig). Whereas we believe this setup was working properly, since upgrading from 6.1.4 to 6.2.2 we now find that the failover PIX is continuously rebooting itself at the same place half-way through displaying the configuration it's got from the Primary device. Licences are OK. We have swapped out the rebooting PIX with another PIX, but the problem persists. The PIX doesn't reboot when run as a standalone device.

No reference on Cisco to the Error message.

Any suggestions appreciated !!!

Mike.vankleef@newsint.co.uk

Output sample:

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access-list wibble permit udp 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.40.0 2

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Nested traceback attempted via watchdog.

Traceback output aborted.

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Rebooting..

CISCO SYSTEMS PIX FIREWALL

Embedded BIOS Version 4.3.207 01/02/02 16:12:22.73

Compiled by morlee

256 MB RAM

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I have played around some more, and found that the Failover PIX actually manages to download the configuration from the Primary, but crashes very soon after this update event.

========================= NOTICE =========================

This machine is licensed to run in

failover secondary mode only

==========================================================

Pre-configure PIX Firewall now through interactive prompts [yes]? no

Type help or '?' for a list of available commands.

Failover cable present (status = 0), enabled failover and set Standby

pixfirewall>

ThisIsMyPIX>

Thread Name: lu_rx (Old pc 0x80250c5d ebp 0x85ddac24)

Traceback:

0: 8011bf59

1: 80254980

2: 80255486

3: 8025145a

4: 80002fc1

5: 00000000

vector 0x0000000e (page fault)

edi 0xcccccccc

esi 0x77280a0a

ebp 0x85ddab94

esp 0x85ddab78

ebx 0x00000014

edx 0x000303c1

ecx 0x00000014

eax 0x00032640

error code 0x00000000

eip 0x8011c240

cs 0x00000008

eflags 0x00010202

CR2 0xccccccd0

Stack dump: base:0x85dd9ca0 size:4096, active:424

0x85ddac9c: 0x00000000

0x85ddac98: 0x8025132c

0x85ddac94-0x85ddac90: 0x00000000

0x85ddac8c-0x85ddac70: 0x12345678

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0x85ddaafc: 0xcccccccc

0x85ddaaf8: 0x00000006

Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.2(2)

Cisco PIX Device Manager Version 2.1(1)

Compiled on Fri 07-Jun-02 17:49 by morlee

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