11-07-2019 06:07 AM - edited 02-21-2020 09:40 AM
Hello Community!
I'm noticing an interesting behaviour of Windows standard "tracert" command: when I simultaneously run several tracerts to the same host in the internet I get some random timeouts on different steps of trace. I run Cisco 4331 with IOS-XE 16.6.7. On 16.9.3 the issue is the same. ZBFW is in place. When I remove zone membership for interfaces tracert works ok: all running tracerts show pretty much the same results. At least no random timeouts noticed. Is it the expected thing or something can be tuned up in configuration? Here's my config:
### Interfaces config: ### interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0 description ### WAN ### ip address XX.XX.XX.XX 255.255.255.248 ip nat outside ip access-group isp3-list in zone-member security zone-outside ip tcp adjust-mss 1380 negotiation auto crypto map vpn-map interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1 description ### LAN ### ip flow monitor nf-meter-ingress input ip flow monitor nf-meter-egress output ip address 172.16.6.3 255.255.255.0 ip nat inside zone-member security zone-inside negotiation auto service-policy output policy-lan-qos ### NAT: ### ip nat inside source route-map nonat-isp3-r-map interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0 overload route-map nonat-isp3-r-map permit 10 match ip address nat-list match interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0 ip access-list extended nat-list permit ip 172.16.0.0 0.0.7.255 any ### Zone pairs: ### zone security zone-outside zone security zone-inside zone-pair security pair-inside-to-outside source zone-inside destination zone-outside service-policy type inspect policy-inside-to-outside zone-pair security pair-outside-to-inside source zone-outside destination zone-inside service-policy type inspect policy-outside-to-inside ### Policies: ### policy-map type inspect policy-inside-to-outside class type inspect class-inside-to-outside inspect class class-default drop log policy-map type inspect policy-outside-to-inside class type inspect class-icmp-unreachable pass class class-default drop log ### Class maps: ### class-map type inspect match-any class-inside-to-outside match protocol dns match protocol icmp match protocol ntp match protocol ftp match protocol sip match protocol tcp match protocol udp class-map type inspect match-any class-icmp-unreachable match access-group name icmp-unreachable-list ### ACLs: ### ip access-list extended isp3-list remark === WAN in ACL === deny tcp any object-group host-rtr-outside3 eq telnet deny tcp any object-group host-rtr-outside3 eq 22 deny tcp any object-group host-rtr-outside3 eq www deny tcp any object-group host-rtr-outside3 eq smtp deny tcp any object-group host-rtr-outside3 eq 443 deny udp any any eq snmp deny ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any deny ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any deny ip 0.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any deny ip 169.254.0.0 0.0.255.255 any deny ip 192.0.2.0 0.0.0.255 any deny ip 224.0.0.0 15.255.255.255 any deny ip 240.0.0.0 15.255.255.255 any permit udp object-group group-vpn-peers eq isakmp object-group host-rtr-outside3 eq isakmp permit esp object-group group-vpn-peers object-group host-rtr-outside3 deny udp any eq isakmp any eq isakmp deny esp any any permit ip any any ip access-list extended icmp-unreachable-list permit icmp any object-group group-loc-nets host-unreachable permit icmp any object-group group-loc-nets ttl-exceeded permit icmp any object-group group-loc-isp ttl-exceeded object-group network group-msk-nets description Local LANs 172.16.6.0 255.255.255.0
object-group network group-msk-isp description External IPs host XX.XX.XX.XX
11-07-2019 06:25 AM
11-07-2019 07:24 AM
Same thing - random timeouts.
Tracert uses ttl-exceeded messages to determine hops along the packets path so echo-replies wouln't help here...
And logging doesn't help either because when there's only one tracert running all replies are being received without timeouts. If it was due to firewall policies there were no replies at all...
I'm attaching the outputs for both multi/single tracerts. Three tracerts were run with 1 second gap (time to switch between CMD windows and hit Enter).
11-07-2019 07:53 AM
11-08-2019 12:04 AM
It's been tested on two ISPs.
Contacted with Cisco TAC, will wait if they have some insights for this...
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