PIX running 6.0(1) with 4 interfaces. Automatically reboots during...

[ForumKid]

THis is my wierd scenario:
PIX 520 running 6.0(1).
I have 3 interfaces. Im running PAT.
I have outside, inside, dmz

Everything works great. If I kick off a copy from the inside to dmz. For example, I want to copy 200 megs from dmz to a client on the inside. It starts out fine. But after a few minutes it causes the pix to reboot automatically therefore dropping all connections. I have debugged this sometime now. It only happens when I copy large amounts of data, even though I dont call 200 megs large, from dmz to inside. I check my syslog and it has this in there: %PIX-1-101003: (Secondary) Failover cable not connected (this unit). There is no failover. show failover shows that its OFF.

Why would the pix just reboot out of the blue? I have never heard of such a thing.

 

[baddos]

I remember there being a bug w/ some PIX's and their Intel NICS. Search on Cisco's site for it, there was some models that caused that under heavy load.

 

[ForumKid]

Hi,

Thanks. I researched and came up with the pix 515 having the problem. Ill check some more. Also the PIX has the cisco nic's. Not the intel ones....

 

[BuckWeet]

cisco NICs are actually intel e100 nics


buckweet

 

[themut]

How about an upgrade to 6.1(5) or 6.2(3)?