I feel your pain Joshua. But what you are describing I have never seen on any PIX's, other than those with a hardware problem, user error or unauthorized users tampering with the PIX. I have been working with the PIX for almost a decade and I know of...

Mike I see. Glad to hear you are behind the PIX now. In order to determine what the random valleys are I would need to put a protocol analyzer on your network. You will probably want to have a protocol analyst come out and sniff your wire to give it ...

There are only two things that can be causing the anomolies you are experiencing. One is that your PIX is giving up the ghost. Something is wrong with it, like a bad flash chip or something. The only other explanation is someone is having fun with yo...

I am not familiar with the "max-time statement. I have never had to use it in a vpn configuration so that means you don't need it. It is the only other command other than idle-time that deals with the vpn session timeout. The other commands you have ...

I don't understand your static commands. They don't make sense. Why are you referencing a protocol with the static mapping? Is this some new feature of the PIX IOS that I am just not aware of?