Cisco Firewall :: 6509 / High Connections On FWSM?
Oct 19, 2011
I am having issues trying to track down what is causing a high number of connection on our FWSM in our core 6509 switch. I recently upgraded my FWSM to 3.1(20) and I'm looking for a tool to be able to find the culprit. When I receive these messages I try to get onto the firewall in time to be able to get information regarding this issue but by the time I do the device recovers. Is there a way to tweat the threshold of the SNMP trap for high connections? Is there any way I can retreive this information via SNMP? Is there are command that will allow me to extract the local IP making the most connections?
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Oct 29, 2012
our FWSM (in 6509) is not coming up, when tried to sesssion up using "Session slot 1 proc 1" command,It is giving error , "Tyring 127.0.0.11 .....connection timed out remote host not responding".
In "show mod" command output at Switch in IOS console: under Card Type Section: it is showing Model & Serial Number correctly, Under MAC address sectino: displaying some MAC address But in Online Diag Status, it showing "Unknown" for Module 1.
We tried re-seating in other slots, but of no use. Giving same error. Some of other forms are saying it is the issue with 128 Mb CF image problem, FWSM is no more reachable from 6509 IOS console. We even tried using FWSM console (using PC-Conse & LCP Console) but FWSM is not contactable.
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Jul 16, 2011
I think I got a strange behavior on a context of my WS-SVC-FWM-1 (on a Catalyst 6509 running IOS 12.2(18)SXF17a) that is running FWSM Firewall Version 4.1(3). This context sends these log messages every ten minutes:
Jul 17 2011 23:31:16: %FWSM-6-302010: 0 in use, 0 most used
Jul 17 2011 23:31:17: %FWSM-6-302010: 2245 in use, 107133 most used
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If I issue the "show conn" three seconds later the log message, the output I got is: FWSM# sh conn 1041 in use, 107133 most used
In another context on the same FWSM the log message sent every ten minutes is just this one:
Jul 17 2011 23:31:17: %FWSM-6-302010: 1358 in use, 72503 most used
Jul 17 2011 23:41:22: %FWSM-6-302010: 1590 in use, 72503 most used
In this case there is no the log message where the "in use" field and "most used" field are 0 (zero). why does the context send the message with the "in use" field and "most used" field 0 (zero).
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May 17, 2011
I have attached a drawing of our network. We have two 6509's connected to two Cisco 2811 (onsite) that the ISP owns. I am trying to get one side up and running before I worry about redundancy and so forth. For this reason I have set all the HSRP priorities to 110 on the left 6509. I have HSRP running between the ISP routers and V LAN 101 of the 6509's. This works as I can ping yahoo and Google just fine from the 6509 switch. I can't get from my laptop connected to V LAN 23 to the internet.
It doesn't even attempt to NAT as there are no translations. I have public address assigned by my ISP configured between the ISP routers and my 6509 on V LAN 101. I then have the public address assigned to V LAN 100. I configured V LAN 100 on the switch and V LAN 100 on the FWSM with the IP address in the drawing. I have my NAT statements and route in my FWSM according to the drawing as well. On the switch, I have a default route to X.X.12.19 which is the VIP between the ISP routers. I can reach anything on the inside of my network, including the old network addresses from V LAN 23.
1. Is it best to do NAT at the FWSM or should I do it on the MSFC connected to the ISP routers?
2. If I have to configure NAT at the FWSM, does this requires me to extend the public network down to the FWSM?
3. I'll take any examples you may have as I am stuck.
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Jun 9, 2013
I happen to noticed the FWSM was dropping packets at about 387 packets every 5 minutes. My outside FWSM is WAN facing and has a 1gig link (35% utilized) my inside facing has about 100 downstream switches to the closets. I do not see my 6509's back plane is being over utilized and my understanding of the FWSM show be go for 5 gig so it isn't oversubscribe. Why i am seeing packets dropped?
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Jul 2, 2011
I have attached a pdf of an example of a FWSM configuration with shared interfaces. Now what I dont get is (please refer to the link) url...Is there any difference between the natting that they have done on page B-4 on Context A.as opposed to configuring a static NAT for processing traffic to correct context nat(inside,outside) 209.165.201.0 10.1.2.0.The other question is on page B-2 (diagram) Context A has a customer A network linked to the inside interface. Is it possible to put a default route towards that "Network 2" cloud and restrict traffic from the 6509 switch towards the context A?
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Oct 4, 2011
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).
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Jan 8, 2012
i have 6509+FWSM(4.0.4) now i wanna use stite to stite and ez vpn in the fwsm (multiple context) multiple context mode in fwsm support ipsec vpn?
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May 29, 2012
Does the FWSM for a 6506/6509 is supported in a VSS environment?Also, does the FWSM work with the 2T supervisor module?
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Mar 6, 2011
I need to enable Management access to FWSM using CA ssl certificate.
FWSM Version 3.2(5) in Cisco 6509 switch.
Got to know how to generate, import and export certificate but my query is how to get it applied to the management ip do i need to apply in the management interface.
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Nov 4, 2012
We are in the process of migrating to the ASA service modules on both our 6509E switches from our current FWSM. We have used the Cisco conversion tool and applied that to the service module. When viewing the context in ASDM we are unable to view the object names in the right hand pane.
On the FWSM I would see the following under Network Objects:
Network Objects
- JQ-Test
- JQ-Test2
- JQ-Test3
Network Object Group
+ JQ Group
- JQ-Test
- JQ-Test2
- JQ-Test3
Now I have run the conversion tool and applied that to the ASA's I now get the following results.
Network Objects
- 10.1.1.1
- 10.2.2.2
- 10.3.3.3
Network Object Group
+ JQ Group
- 10.1.1.1
- 10.2.2.2
- 10.3.3.3
I am aware that the naming convention on the ASA's are different to the FWSM as you can no longer use the "name 1.1.1.1 JQ-Test1" format but I was hoping that the conversion tool would do this for me.
Is there any way I can get the names of the object back without having to script something that takes the old FWSM format and convert it into an ASA format?
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Aug 29, 2012
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?
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May 8, 2011
We have a setup of FWSMs configured in single mode in 6509 chassis. Both 6509 are configured in VSS. Recently I have upgraded the firmwre from 4.0(3) to 4.1(3).....before upgradation config sync was not having any problem.
After upgradation...If any one of the FWSM reload..while coming up it gets stuck in config sync and no command we can run on any of the unit and get the error as..
Configuration update in progress by another process. Also on stannby fwsm no running-config displays.
If we used # failover suspend-config on primary and then reloads the standby fwsm...standby boots up with startup config and when # no failover suspend-config command runs on active fwsm..the sync started and completing succssfully within 15 sec..
Also failover works well..with #no failover active..
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Oct 27, 2011
Currently we have two inter-chassis FWSM redundancy. I would like to configure them for intra-chassis.
Both FWSM's are in slot 7 of 6509 switches and i want to take secondary out from one of the 6509 switch and insert in the slot 3 of primary switch.
I addedd the following commands in my primary switch.
There were commands already present for FWSM in primary switch
firewall multiple-vlan-interfaces
firewall module 7 vlan-group 1
firewall vlan-group 1 2,3,777
to create intra-chassis redundancy i addedd the following command also there.
firewall module 3 vlan-group 1
after adding that, my firewalls worked fine but there was a issue with site loading. People from outside were able to access inside but from inside, we were not able to go outside.
do we need to clear arp from both FWSM's ? is there any other precautionary step, which we need to follow while working on it.
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Apr 15, 2013
We have a faulty FWSM module in Cisco 6509 switch in Active/Standby cluster mode
We have purchased a refurbished FWSM module to replace it. It has the same FWSM OS 4.0 (4) and is in factory default configuration
What procedures should I follow to make this unit live and sync the config between the current active unit to this one.
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Aug 8, 2012
i have been facing strange issue on FWSM (6509 switch). we have created a vlan inteface for server farm on fwsm and its stop responding automatically and we need to give shut/ no shut command under that interface to back into normal .
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May 22, 2012
We have a 6509 core with the below modules running for a long time and the utilization used to be always 10 to 13 percent checking with the supplier it was told to us that due to the firewall modue we have and its normal Now 2 days back i noticed the utilzation had jumped to 90 % and now it happened again
I see that on runnung proc cpu
16407 56.1% 56.5% 55.9% ios-base
16430 35.3% 35.2% 33.9% iprouting.iosproc
the modules present
Mod Ports Card Type Model Serial No.--- ----- -------------------------------------- ------------------ ----------- 1 6 Firewall Module WS-SVC-FWM-1 SAD140901XA 3 16 16 port 1000mb GBIC ethernet
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Aug 12, 2012
We have 6509 VSS with FWSM Module and we have created two context on it, one is INTERNALL CONTEXT othe is EXTERNALL Context? We have spanned various VLANS in switches and FWSM context level. All VLAN Gateways are configured in context level.
Activity description : We had planned migration of these devices into a new Datacenter, it was a planned activity. During migration of devices from one Dc to a new DC we broke the VSS and kept the primary running and removed the secondary switch and migrated this secondary to new DC and powered this device ON in the new DC and checked all the config was very much fine but this device was OFF network as secondary was brought to new DC just to limit the downtime during the primary switch movement.
During the activity ( Primary switch movement )We powered off the Primary switch and mean time before shifting into new Data center We had brought up secondary switch which was already existing in the DC was put live in the network and it was working fine without any issues.
Later we had moved Primary into new data center and tried to put into VSS with the secondary , during this period the secondary device into went into RECOVERY MODE and primary device was not responding and devices went off network and immediatly we removed the VSL link and brought up primary into production network without secondary online in the network ( Without VSS just stand alone switch ) network started working, but bringing up the primary we found that some of the VLANS in the FWSM was deleted and some VLAN had misconfiguration ( example : say original VLAN ip 10.200.112.1 has become 10.300.13.1 ) also some of the access list as well as SVI was deleted making configuration mismatch.
Wanted to know while syncronization b/n primary and secondary switch in VSS if we pull out VSL link would create this type of issues.
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Mar 20, 2011
One of my remote sites acquires Internet connectivity via a cable modem service. This goes down intermittently, of course. I would like to purchase DSL service from the local telco and configure the edge ASA (currently a 5505) to use the cable modem path normally ... and fall back to the DSL path if necessary.
These seems hard to do. The edge box would need to evaluate the viability of a WAN path using some set of tests ... perhaps pings to a handful of major Internet sites. If all those pings start failing, it would stall for a minute, to give the WAN service provider time to recover ... then cut over to the second path. Cutting to the second path might mean pushing new DNS server addresses to clients (or perhaps the edge box would hand out both sets of DNS servers all the time and rely on the clients to try them all.) Once the cable modem provider restored service, the edge box would stall for a while (ten minutes? an hour?) and then cut back.
I'm willing to replace the edge box with something fancier (a bigger ASA or something sold as a router or whatever), although I'd like to stay under 10K (list) for such a replacement.
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Aug 8, 2012
i am feeling an issue related to 2 x 6509 with fwsm.
Mod Ports Card Type Model --- ----- -------------------------------------- ------------------ ----------- 1 6 Firewall Module WS-SVC-FWM-1 2 48 CEF720 48 port 1000mb SFP WS-X6748-SFP 3 48 CEF720 48 port 10/100/1000mb Ethernet WS-X6748-GE-TX 4 48 CEF720 48 port 10/100/1000mb Ethernet WS-X6748-GE-TX 5 5 Supervisor Engine 720 10GE (Active) VS-S720-10G
Hw Fw Sw Status ------------ ------------ ------- 4.3 7.2(1) 4.1(2) Ok 1.12 12.2(14r)S5 12.2(33)SXH3 Ok 3.0 12.2(18r)S1 12.2(33)SXH3 Ok 3.0 12.2(18r)S1 12.2(33)SXH3 Ok 2.1 8.5(2) 12.2(33)SXH3 Ok
on fwsm we have different dmz for different application. mostly of Oracle (1521 port) to application means seperate one. problem is oracle people reported the slow performace when exporting dump from once vlan to another. before that they are using 3com technology (network) and on this its ok. time difference is double from old to new.
i had sniffed the traffic also and found alot of TCP OUT OF ORDERS errors. i read that this is the bug which is resolved in 4.0.
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Aug 24, 2012
I have 2 cisco 6500 switches with FWSM running HSRP with an ISP. I need to add another ISP into this configuration for ISP failover. The original ISP i.e ISP 1 has given us a Vlan and we have configured a default route into the FWSM to go through it. Now i have 2nd ISP which has given us another Vlan but i would like to know how can i configure default route for this 2nd ISP as i already have one for the 1st ISP.
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Nov 17, 2012
I have a vlan defined in FWSM for server farm there is a one server with two IP addresses and teaming has done on it how ever from FWSM i am able to ping both IP addresses but from core 6509 switch i am only able to ping one ip address. from FWSM show ARP command displays the same virtual mac addresses against both IPS of the same server.
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Oct 8, 2012
We are planning to upgrade the IOS on our two 6509E supervisors in the next few weeks. We currently run IOS 12.2(33) SXI1 and are upgrading to 12.2(33) SXJ3. At the moment the two supervisors are in SSO mode and after reading many articles it says that when the images are different on the two supervisors they are in RPR mode. When you then reload the active supervisor it will reboot all the line cards.
1. Is above correct? Will my line card reload?
2. We also have a FWSM installed, When/If the line cards are rebooted does the FWSM also reboot?
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Feb 7, 2012
Configuring FWSM in a 6509. When I set "firewall vlan-group 40 40-42,251", it results in: "No more than one svi is allowed. Command rejected.".
I had "firewall multiple-vlan-interfaces" set for a previous use of this module, but took that off with the "no" command. Suspect that is the issue, but do not see how to resolve. Seems similar to bug CSCsr48563, but I am at the fixed code for that bug.
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Dec 20, 2010
We have a 6509 that was connected to 2 other locations(location A and B) and our local lan (location MAIN). We wanted to move the location A and B to a 3750 switch and only allow the traffic that needed to access our location MAIN to come through the firewall. The only problem I ran into is that before location A and B were on different interfaces so in the 6509 firewall the routes for traffic to our MAIN location was done by static routes.
I.E.
static (MAIN_intf,A_intf) 192.1.1.72 10.94.10.72 netmask 255.255.255.255 0 0
static (MAIN_intf,B_intf) 192.2.2.72 10.94.10.72 netmask 255.255.255.255 0 0
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because it has a static overlap, which makes sense to me, but my question is how do I configure the network to get this to work? Do I have to reconfigure my network and access-list? Do I need to add more ports between the 6509 and 3750? I'm not sure if this is the best way to do what we want. If something is not clear I'll try my best to explain the setup, but I just took over for our I.T. guy when he left.
I put 10.10.10.72 instead I should have put 10.94.10.72. the routed port is on a different subnet than the computer I'm trying to access.
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Sep 25, 2012
Any have experience on triggered failover on VSS deployment with 1 VS-720-10G-3C in each chassis? I tried using "redundancy force-switchover" but after that the 20G VSL is flapping up & down and cannot be up normally, we got 1 FWSM in each chassis, any configuration need to fit in this kind deployment? BTW, if I shutdown the power source of VSS active chassis, both FWSM & VSS can failover normally.
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Sep 30, 2012
I have 2 6509 chasis with one SUP720-3B in each and current IOS is s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-mz.122-18.SXF4 and 2 FWSM with version is 3.3.1 I need to upgrade FWSM system software to 4.1, after checking FWSM 4.1 release notes, I thought of upgrading IOS to latest version to 12.2(33)SXJ.I got new 2 CF of 512MB and downloaded the new IOS on them and need to upgrade 6509 IOS first to meet the requirement for FWSM upgrade.
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Sep 13, 2011
I have high cpu problem on 6509 VSS(VS-S720-10G). When VSS was connected to LMS or NMS, the cpu utilization of VSS was very high(MAX 100%).
When they were not connected, the cpu utilization was normal.
I think it is because of SNMP gathering on LMS/NMS.
And I blocked arp table and forwarding table, but there was no change on cpu utilization. I couldn't find the bug reports and other references.
Info. IOS version : 12.2(33)SXI1
device : 6509 VSS(VS-S720-10G)
cpu utilization : snmp engine (30%~60%) peak, sometimes 100%.
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Oct 13, 2011
Today I've received reports of slow internet access/activity and have noticed myself that it seems a bit slow today. On the dashboard of our asa 5510 the "outside interface" traffic usage is running constantly high. It's at the top of the graph. How can I tell what is causing the spike in utilization. It usually runs at about 1500-2000 Kbps, and now it's up over 10,000.
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Mar 3, 2012
I have 2 6509-E chassis with SUP-720-VSS and classic line cards :-(. on October 2011 the switch reached 100% CPU on both devices and the entire network went down. Customer restarted the core so we lost all the log files and couldnt find out any root cause on the same. TAC engineer suggested to have some script configured on the system in case of CPU shooting up above 70%, it will create a file in flash and keep appending the logs to the same. Last week i got call from customer saying that the CPU again went high for around a minute on both the cores. Last time i added CoPP also on the switch in order to prevent the CPU reaching 100%. Still it went high and from the captured logs i saw that the process created the high CPU was Port Manager Per and SSH process. Attached the file created by the netdr capture command.
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May 20, 2012
From couple of weeks we have observed the cpu utilization of cisco 6509 with SUP 720 is high. During daytime from 9:00 to 21:00 it keeps increasing & reaches 98% & after 21:00 becomes normal.
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Oct 23, 2011
Is this normal to have millions of current connections within an ace 4710? There is only 3 current connections but shows a high number?
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Jan 29, 2011
Cisco 6509 modular IOS getting high cpu in interrupt but the switch process switching is still less. Any sugeestion what could be the problem?
Process sbin/ios-base, type IOS, PID = 16407CPU utilization for five seconds: 12%/81%;
Sometimes cpu goes upto 100%
Version - s72033-ipservicesk9_wan-vz.122-33.SXH5
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