Cisco Firewall :: 6500 - FWSM - Not Passing Traffic Through Firewall
May 3, 2011
We have 2 FWSM modules in each 6500 switches. 1st module is having 04 firewall vlan groups with 18 vlan interfaces in a single context firewall. All are working fine with no issues. Recently we create one more vlan on MFSC and add into the same firewall module. However newly created vlan inside the FW is not able to communicate with outside and also outside users not able to reach newly created subnet. But within the firewall zones (other interfaces) it can communicate. Once we did packet capture we noticed that its hitting firewall outside interface only and when we ping we got TTL expired error. we have default routes to outside and there's no any route inside as new segment is within the firewall (no any hop).
I guess there's no limitation on number of vlans that we can assign on one firewall eventhough there is a limitation for number of vlan-group which is 16 max (but we are within that limit).
Ive got a problem with passing traffic through a Cisco 515e firewall.im trying to telnet to devices on the inside net, 172.16.x.x fom an outside net 10.x.x.x? ive configured a group called infrastructure and added the 10.x.x.x addresses.ive configured acl 101 inbound on the outside interface:
access-list 101 permit tcp object-group INFRASTRUCTURE any eq telnet
when i try and connect, using a packet capture I can see traffic from 10.4.4.34 to the inside device 172.x.x.x on the inside interface but i cant see the traffic leave the outside interface ive used the same group infrastructure group before to connect to VM machines on the 172.x.x.x net on RDP and this wrks ok. access-list 101 permit tcp object-group INFRASTRUCTURE object-group VMs eq 3389
We have a pair of 6500s with Sup720 running 12.2(33)SXI3. Each has an ACE-20 (s/w A2(2.0)) and FWSM (s/w v3.2(15)). We have reached a limit on the number of rules we can configure on the FWSM, and have determined that we shall upgrade to 4.1(5), with ASDM to 6.2(2)F. A question has been raised regarding the s/w on the ACE-20 modules. Do we need to upgrade them as well?
I have had a strange issue with a pair of FWSM's in 2 6500's, it seems there was a failover but both module's have been reset.
CAT1 Feb 03 17:08:46.525: %SNMP-5-MODULETRAP: Module 8 [Down] Trap Feb 03 17:08:46.522: SP: The PC in slot 8 is shutting down. Please wait ...Feb 03 17:09:01.525: SP: shutdown_pc_process:No response from module 8 Feb 03 17:09:11.382: %C6KPWR-SP-4-DISABLED: power to module in slot 8 set off (Reset) Feb 03 17:10:56.093: %DIAG-SP-6-RUN_MINIMUM: Module 8: Running Minimal Diagnostics...Feb 03 17:10:59.796: %SVCLC-5-FWVTPMODE: VTP [Code]...
We run a 6500 with an FWSM with multiple security contexts as well as cascading contexts with a "shared V LAN" . There is a problem with regards to Linux machines and our shared network.
For example, we have three Linux machines in production, each in three separate V LAN's. For me to communicate to these boxes from one V LAN to another I must first ping the server. If I do not ping the server it will not bring up a connection like ssh or HTTP, etc. Below is the error I get from the FWSM that hosts the Linux server, but like I said once I ping the server the error goes away. We only have this problem with Linux machines, and it is a problem for all three of them. Is the FWSM having issues understanding something with all three Linux boxes? Below is the error I get at first, when I try to SSH from one V LAN to another V LAN with the Linux machine.
6 Dec 21 2012 16:33:54 106015 10.255.12.109 22 10.255.1.30 63000 Deny TCP (no connection) from 10.255.12.109/22 to 10.255.1.30/63000 flags SYN ACK on interface inside.
Below is what happens when I initiate a ping to the Linux Server and then ssh again. Notice it builds the connection with no problem after the ping. During the ping it builds the dynamic translation, and then when I ssh it builds the TCP connection. Do you know why this could be?
6 Dec 21 2012 16:35:08 305009 10.255.12.109 10.255.12.109 [Code]....
There is a 6500 switch with fwsm. We have extended 2 vlans from the ISP into the FWSM. Also there are atleast 10 other vlans for our internal network. We would like say half of the internal vlans to go out of the 1st ISP vlan and the remaining half from the 2nd ISP vlan. Is there a way we can do this in the FWSM?
Firstly is this the right forum to post threads about FWSM's. We have 2 FWSM's in two seperate 6500 switches. There are a number of contexts on each FWSM.I want to fail a context from one FWSM over to the other 6500 and FWSM. Can you tell me how I can do that? Do I need to do it in the admin context and do I need to do it on the admin context of each 6500?
We are thinking of introducing ASA's into our setup instead of using FWSM for our firewalls with our 6500. Currently we use multiple contexts with the FWSM, as we provide hosting services for multiple clients and want them behidn their own firewall. My question is how can we make this happen with an ASA. Since with the FWSM we use the backplane of the 6500 and SVI's for all interfaces between them. For example if we have 20 clients what will be the ideal setup for us to use with an ASA. If we can infact use mutiple contexts how can we? Is there a way we can maybe bundle all the ports in the ASA into the 6500 as a layer two trunk port and continue to use SVIs to manage all the clients.
I have just joined a networks team and will be working on two fwsm versions 4.0(8) in two 6500 routers. Now the fwsms seem to be virtualised with multiple contexts. The server team want a new context setup for a group of servers behind a vlan. [code]
This context just seems to have two Vlans and a BVI interface. What is the function of this context and why we have 2 admin contexts?
Also another important question is on which 6500 do I create the new context? Is the admin context active on one 6500 just like other contexts and will sync across or do I have to create the new context on both 6500s.
Is it possible for me to create 2 vlan interfaces on the 6500 and have them both in the same subnet?
For a specific customer requirement I would like to have a vlan interface on the 6500 as default gateway, sat in it's own vrf, and then route all traffic inbound and outbound to this vlan through the FWSM interface, preferably in the same subnet. I don't think this will be possible so just looking for confirmation either way.
As I will be running EIGRP between a pair of central 6500's and 2 remote offices it will make things much easier for me advertise the connected FWSM interfaces in to EIGRP for access in/out of all my VRF'd subnets. If I need another subnet for each VRF FWSM next hop then I'll have to reditribute a list of statics which I don't really want to do.
The reason I am not just using the FWSM as gateway is because I need to run HSRP across 3 different devices (another 6500 in a second suite), and failover FWSM will only give me 1 level of redundancy for those gateways.
FTP traffic routed from outside to the inside interface works fine. I have another interface with multiple sub-interfaces and vlans configured. FTP traffic routed from the outside to vlan2_servers is not making it through the firewall. I must be missing something. I have attached my config.
We are trying to get a video conference system (POLYCOM) up running. Thrue a Cisco 1812 router with Firewall feature set.
I Have heard in the past that there should be issues with Polycom and Cisco, but have actually never seen it.I can establish a video call from inside the 1812 to outside.
But when I try from outside to the public ip adress there is nattet to, then it reach the video system and die straight after, so there is never any video session set up.
I have tried to remove everything regarding firewall feature and passing true, so the only thing the 1812 should do is NAT. And still the same.
I can not see anything in the log on the router from the ACL's where I permittet everything, other then it connect on the port TCP 1720, as it should. This is the software I'm running on the router:
When I search Google, it look like there is a lot issues with Cisco and Polycom, but I have not found any concret solution. Other then I should use a ADSL line with a public IP address. As we probably is going to do.
I need to remove FWSM from a prodcution 6509. This FWSM is a standby. What's the best way to remove without powering down the switch or impacting antyhing?
I'm having problems getting FTP to work through two FWSM virtual contexts which are connected via a vrf. All this is configured on a 6500 switch with the FWSM running 3.1(4)
At the moment we can make the control connection but when we issue commands the connection times out.
Looking at the logs we can see the initial connection made to the server on port 21 from the client, this is also seen on the second firewall context (nearest the FTP server). The data channel is then seen on the first context, made using high src & dst port numbers and initiated from the client, successfully passing the ACL/Inspection, then on the second context we see the connection being denied by the incoming ACL on the second contexts interface connected to the VRF instance.
The rules are identical on the contexts and have been made by copying and paste the rule using CSM, we are using the predefined service group 'FTP-Group' which contains both tcp 20 & 21. FTP inspection is at default on both contexts.
We have tested with Win XP (capable of Active FTP only) & Firefox 3.6.12 which is the connections we are seeing in the logs trying to do Passive FTP.
Is this a problem with teh contexts randomizing sequence numbers or TCP Normalization? Or do we just have a problem with the Inspection engine on one of the contexts (I would have expected to see this on both contexts if it was a bug).
I am just designing a solution where a FWSM consists of 2 contexts initially and has a shared outside interface pointing to the 6500 switch. There are 3 subnets connected to each of the FWSM contexts. So if anyone wants to access these 6 subnets then a route would be needed pointing to the interface vlan of the shared interface on the switch. But that would not be enough to access the subnets.. I am sure we have to define static NATS to point them to the right context where these subnets reside.
The FWSM is running version 3.x code So say 1.1.1.0(shared), 10.10.0.0(inside1), 10.20.0.0(inside2) and 10.30.0.0(inside3) reside in Context 1 and 1.1.1.0(shared), 20.10.0.0(dmz1), 20.20.0.0(dmz2) and 20.30.0.0(dmz3) reside in Context 2 in each of the context we would have to make three static NATS
I have a customer that has a FWSM on a 6500, I want to create a read only account for them, i believe user privelage of lvl_3 When I log into the firewall it prompts me for a password straight away.
Is there a way that i can create a login that when it prompts me for a password, I can have a password setup to put into that prompt to get a certain level of access, instead of the standard lvl_15 access
I'm looking at upgrading our FWSM modules in our 6500's. They're the WS-SVC-FWM-1 modules.
We're running on version 3.2(12) at the moment and I'm looking to jump up to 4. Any recommendations around whether I should to go to 4.1(6) or 4.0(16)? There aren't any features in particular that I would need in 4.1 but want a good stable base to sit on for 12 months until I look at this exercise all over again.
What the support for WCCP on a FWSM running 4.0(7) is like, if there is any at all ?
I've read that the earliest PIX release that supports WCCP was 7.2(1) but I'm not sure how FWSM 4.0(7) aligns with the PIX versions.The only doc's i can find refrencing WCCP on a 6500 with FWSM is in the 6500 12.2 IOS guide.
i do have two 6500 in VSS mode , and one FWSM module on each 6500, i want to configure these modules as Active/Standby, how do i start , should i follow this (not in VSS mode): url..
So I was doing some testing with my BB Playbook where I wanted to see what outside connections it tried to make during startup and whatnot. I have a pix 506e running 6.3(5). I created an simple 'deny ip any any' access list on the inside interface so that the Playbook doesn't actually make any connections, but I set up a 'capture' on the inside interface accepting 'ip any any' to see what kind of traffic I could see heading outbound from the Playbook. Well, it started off showing attempts to query DNS (and failed, naturally), but then after a couple of minutes, it tried to connect to a couple of IPs over port 443 and actually got a response!!! For the life of me, I can't figure out how this can happen. NO traffic should be allowed outbound due to my explicit 'deny' rule, but for some reason some traffic on port 443 made it past the firewall and got a response back. There are no other rules in the access list except the 'deny' rule. My PIX configuration is quite simple and I cannot see anything that would allow the Playbook traffic to circumvent the access list.
I've come to think that either RIM has found away around Cisco access-lists, or there is a bug in the Pix OS. I know it's an old appliance/OS, but still. I wouldn't think it could be THAT easy to bypass the firewall.
It is my understanding that the FWSM for the 6500 series switches uses a 6 port Etherchannel on the backplane to communicate with the 6500 series switch.Can you shutdown vlan1 on the switch and still communicate with the FWSM? I was under the impression that you could not (although I am looking at a config with it shutdown)
We are running an FWSM on a 6509 with a SUP720. Firmware 3.2(18), in MultiContext Routed Mode, with shared MSFC.Everything runs fine on this baby most of them time, however occasionally without warning and with no specific pattern the Primary node will fail (as in completely stop responding) and the secondary will takover as active. Two get the primary up agian, I reset the hw-module and then no failover active on the secondary to return the primary as active. However, after this event, I start to experience strange issues with connectivity. Certain TCP src dst combinations will just not work.
At the moment everytime I want to make a change to firewall rules I click apply and the rules are applied Immediately. I have to make multiple changes during the working day which I don't like to do.
What I would like to do is make changes during the day but not apply them until out of hours (some sort of batch mode). Like I can do in my check point firewalls.
I have 2 modules of FWSM in 6500 switch (failover). I need 5 context. When I use in routed mode (like in the picture) , I cannot ping the servers behind the firewall. (I have ping to FW context) In transparent mode, it is not happening.
after upgrading an ASA 5520 to 8.4.2-8 VPN clients traffic is not passing destinations other then destinations behind the inside interface. the log shows routing failure for the vpn client on the inside interface.it was working fine with 8.4.1 but the traffic is originated from the outside interface. confirm the the interface for VPN clients changed from outside to the inside interface.
I have an issue where our ASA 5520 is impacting upload (from LAN to internet) speed. We have a 100Mbps SDSL internet link and only see around 45-50 Mbps on the upload when going via the firewall, download is around 90+ Mbps so that is acceptable. I have tested a laptop connected directly to the internet router and that give near on the 100Mbps up and down speeds, but if I put that laptop on the LAN or directly onto the firewall interface I only see 90Mbps down and 45Mbps up. I have check that the interface speeds/duplex on the firewall, switch and laptop are correct and also checked there are no errors on the ports. I also turned off the IPS and that made no difference. In addition I have checked the CPU during download/upload (max): CPU utilization for 5 seconds = 9%; 1 minute: 3%; 5 minutes: 1%
In theory the 5520 should be able to cope with this throughput:
Cisco ASA 5500 Series Model/License: 5520 Maximum firewall throughput (Mbps): 450 Mbps Maximum firewall connections: 280,000
I have FWSM failover pair, Active/Active configuration, admin and another 4 context, few context active on first FWSM, other on second FWSM.I needed to add VLANs 51 and 52 to FWSMI created VLANs on both Cat6500, created firewall vlan-group 3 a and put "firewall module1 vlan-group 3" on both cat6500Then I log in in system space on primary FWSM and created interface VLAN.Created VLANs automatically occured in system space on Secondary FWSM.Then I wanted allocate VLAN 51 and 52 to context XY, so I went to part of configuration for context XY and "allocate-interface Vlan51" and "allocate-interface Vlan52".
I am trying to determine why Comcast Business Class modem configured with a static IP (IPV4) works with a laptop or Linksys Cable modem but not with a Cisco ASA 5505. After a few minutes, the 5505 stop passing web traffic. I am able to ping the default gateway even though I can not surf the web. Restarting the 5505 and the Comcast modem, web traffic flows for a short period of time, then stops. I can connect inside the firewall via ASDM 7.1.1 and via SSH. I can not connect via either from the outside. Comcast tech support indicated their router is working and is configured in bridge mode. I swapped out the 5505's memory, and then with another 5505. Nothing seems to resolve the issue. I am trying to determine if the 5505 or the Comcast router is not configured correctly.
Here are the parameters: The 5505 was reset to default factory settings via the command: config factory-default. Configured the outside interface with static IP Address followed by the no shutdown command, then removed DHCP features from outside interface. Added Comcast DNS servers, default route, ntp servers, configured DHCP features on the inside interface. Enabled HTTP/SSH (inside & outside interfaces) and ICMP echo-reply (outside only).
I believe the Comcast modem is not configured correctly. The show version and show startup output are below.
ciscoasa# show version Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 9.1(1) Device Manager Version 7.1(2)
I have problem with traffic coming from GRE interface and going further through FWSM on the same 6509-E chassis.It's very interesting and confusing. If packets are fragmented, I can go through, however, if I use normal packets (usual ping for example) traffic goes from outside to inside and stops on it's way back.
Here is the detailed info: WS-C6509-E with WS-SUP720-3B FWSM HW 4.0, SW 4.1(4)
GRE is done in hardware (source is loopback interface - only one loopback per GRE tunnel).
Our customer is experimenting really bad performance when running 10Gig traffic through FWSM on C6509. Test with1 Gig traffic are providing find result perfromance as expected in this document: url... I have made a simple drawing so everyone can understand the setup:
The issue is when running 10 Gig traffic between Netapp servers. This traffic is going though the FWSM and the perfomance are really bad: around 50 Mbit/sec. If the traffic is not going though the FWSM ther performance are around 900 Mbit/s.
The customer and I think that the issue is releated the buffer in the C6509 and the FWSM which has big trouble managing 10G to 1G traffic convertering between C6509 and FWSM 6 G etherchannel connection.
When running 10G traffic through FWSM the number of output drops are increasing as you can see on the output bellow. The last thing which is wired a is that the speed is showing 1000 Mbits and not 6000Mbits. [code]
As I am planning to deploy FWSM Module in 6513 chassis and need your valuable comments regarding the strategy that I create for this deployment.Initially (Without FWSM Deployment) all internal traffic moves in this manner.
7613(G9/5) --> 6513(G10/4) --> ISA (Internal Int.) [NATing] (ISA External Int.) --> 6513(G9/45){This is L2 port in VLAN 164} --> VLAN 164(SVI Int,IP:192.168.40.20) --> (G9/44){This is L2 port in VLAN 164}--> ASR 1002 -->Router -->Internet.
As you can see from the Image that I am planning to deploy FWSM in transparent mode in between VLAN 164(SVI Int,IP:192.168.40.20) -[FWSM here]->(G9/44){This is L2 port in VLAN 120}By putting Inside interface of FWSM in VLAN 164 and create a new VLAN on 6513 i.e VLAN 120 and put G9/44 in it.know will this configuration will work regarding the passing of traffic through FWSM ? what improvement I have to made in this design. You can check the attached diagram.
