Cisco Firewall :: Tcp Flags And Timeout On ASA55XX 8.4(3)
Oct 18, 2012
I would like to understand someting about the behaviour of ASA with our traffic scenario and the management of tcp sessions.
1) In particular we noticed that we have connections with the flags Fin without any acknowledgement. The session is silent (the bytes counters aren't incremented) but it remains in the session table as an established connection with the idle timeout of an established conn.
We have about 20% (60K on 300K total) of conns in this state: at our eyes it seems to be an incorrect behaviour...
TCP OUTSIDE 62.149.128.151:110 INSIDE 10.254.158.12:61527, idle 0:11:36, bytes 433, flags UFIO
TCP OUTSIDE 17.151.0.200:443 INSIDE 10.254.229.94:52367, idle 0:01:25, bytes 4597, flags UfIO
TCP OUTSIDE 184.169.79.33:443 INSIDE 10.255.249.146:60143, idle 0:10:39, bytes 5590, flags UFIO
TCP OUTSIDE 157.55.235.158:80 INSIDE 10.170.37.102:62421, idle 0:00:53, bytes 1770, flags UfIO
2) On the connections considered as half -closed we have received an ack to the fin (r or R flag is present), we would like to set the idle timeout to a value lower than 5 minutes but we were not able to reach that result
timeout pat-xlate 0:00:30
timeout conn 0:10:00 half-closed 0:05:00 udp 0:02:00 icmp 0:00:02
!
access-list timeoutClass extended permit tcp any any eq www
access-list timeoutClass extended permit tcp any any eq 8080
class-map timeoutClass
match access-list timeoutClass
class timeoutClass
3) And this type of conns with a Fin on both side that I'm not able to understand... with an ack on one of the side how can I have the other fin??
TCP OUTSIDE 69.171.247.38:443 INSIDE 10.168.139.244:51236, idle 0:11:28, bytes 10536, flags UfFIO
TCP OUTSIDE 69.171.247.38:443 INSIDE 10.168.139.244:51234, idle 0:12:22, bytes 9070, flags UfFIO
TCP OUTSIDE 88.40.119.73:36962 INSIDE 10.255.93.162:36875, idle 0:13:27, bytes 3562, flags UfFIO
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May 14, 2012
I have ASA 5510 with 8.2.4 and 8.0.x OS and all seem to have common problem of idle TCP connections not timing out. The host to host connections are coming over VPN tunnels. I have default timeouts on all the firewalls. I have tried changing global timeouts and as well as host specific timeouts using MPF but doesn't work at all ! The problem is when TCP connections are sitting idle in conn table for days and when connection limit of 50,000 conns reach the firewall starts behaving unpredictably dropping packets or unresponsive! I need the unused idle connections to timeout which is NOT happening either by changing global values or MPF.
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I have an issue were thousands of connections on the ASA are marked with flags E, below is a visual of the connection. Any ideas what could cause this marking? Also, I can't grasp what the meaing of an outside back connection (ie flags E).
TCP DMZ:X.X.X.X/139 Inside:X.X.X.X/1828, flags E, idle 9h37m, uptime 9h37m, timeout 15s, bytes 0
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I know this issue probably has been beat to death, but I have yet to find the answer to my situation. We recently upgraded from a PIX515e to ASA5520. Shortly after the install I noticed a problem with the servers on our DMZ. This problem was NOT present with our old 515e. The problem is that there seems to be a communication problem between servers on the DMZ, specifically when I try to open the web server homepage from my mail server, I get time-outs. When I ping between the two in either direction, I get time-outs. This might seem trivial, but I have other data servers on the DMZ that need to communicate between themselves.
When we question the tech that performed the install, his answer was that there might be a problem with the switch the servers are connected to, or the servers might have a virus. He stated the process of ping should never involve the DMZ interface. And yes, our DMZ interface IP is the gateway for the servers. Now, if the DMZ (ASA) should never come into play with a ping, why when I turned on logging did I receive the error below? It sounds to me that the ping is going through the interface. Here are a few of the errors on the DMZ with the specific server IPs.
july 13 2012 12:50:04 106014 10.10.0.10 10.10.0.5 Deny inbound icmp src dmz1 10.10.0.10 dst dmz1 10.10.0.5 type 8, code 0
The ping problem was only used as an example the demonstrate that there is a comm problem on the DMZ. ASA is running in router mode.
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Nov 26, 2012
ASA 8.2(5), uauth absolute timeout is disabled and inactivity timeout is set to 48 hours:
timeout xlate 48:00:00
timeout conn 1:00:00 half-closed 0:10:00 udp 0:02:00 icmp 0:00:02
timeout sunrpc 0:10:00 h323 0:05:00 h225 1:00:00 mgcp 0:05:00 mgcp-pat 0:05:00
timeout sip 0:30:00 sip_media 0:02:00 sip-invite 0:03:00 sip-disconnect 0:02:00
timeout sip-provisional-media 0:02:00 uauth 0:00:00 absolute uauth 48:00:00 inactivity
timeout tcp-proxy-reassembly 0:01:00
timeout floating-conn 0:00:00
Users still get kicked out every 8 hours and they have to reauth. This is a logging message:
%ASA-5-109012: Authen Session End: user 'john', sid 839, elapsed 28801 seconds
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ASA-3-106001: Inbound TCP connection denied from flags SYN
There is access list allowing traffic between but hit count is 0
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Oct 3, 2012
I would like to know something with more accuration about idle timeout configuration. In particular why is impossible to set "half-closed connections" to a value lower than 5 minutes neither through a policy-map? In my particular scenario, my asa is used to nat mobile phones traffic, it should be advisable to use less than 5 minutes
In my configuration I've set the timers as follows:
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timeout xlate 0:15:00
timeout pat-xlate 0:00:30
timeout conn 0:14:00 half-closed 0:05:00 udp 0:02:00 icmp 0:00:02
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Feb 20, 2013
Faced this recent vulnerability?
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My understanding is that for ASA 8.4.1 and prior, there's a vulnerability that opening many ssh sessions and one of them times out, the firewalls crashes!
As we have many customers with ASA using 8.2.5(26) (for example) I'd like a confirmation that for fixing that bug I need to upgrade my ASA image to at least 8.4.x.Case that, I believe that all the former firewall configuration must be reviewed because 8.2.x version has many different commands that 8.4.x (for example, NAT)
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I recently had a firewall that wasn't passing traffic (ASA 5510 running software version 9.1).It turned out it had 130000 active connections. Doing a "clear conn port 53" dropped the active connection count back to 38k, and the firewall started passing traffic again.
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I have inherited the support of an ASA5520 running 8.0(3)12 code and I believe I have a pretty simple question here that I haven't been able to figure out on my own. I have a few users that connect to the box via IPSEC VPN client connections. They want to be able to leave up a RDP based connection, for monitoring purposes, for a most of the day, but thier RDP connection keeps getting discounnted after a few hours. The VPN connection never gets disconnected, just the RDP session running through it. I have another box running 8.0(4) code and they can leave up the RDP sessions as long as they like without getting disconnected from the server(s). I have compared the configs of both boxes and don't see any glsring differences in regards to the configuration that would cuase the RDP sessions to either to stay up or be disconnected after an inactivity type scenario.
What to look for in regards to identifying the timer that is disconnecting the RDP session after a period of time.
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I have a 5505 for a small business that has one web server. The web server has a static NAT entry to an IP address and not an interface. There is an access rule allowing any HTTP traffic to the outside IP of the web server. From the web server I can't access the Internet.
All other computers on the network can access the Internet using a dynamic nat rule that uses the outside interface. The web server is accessible from a computer behind the firewall.
If I delete the static NAT entry for the web server I can get on the Internet.
I have turned debugging on and see that an outbound connection is built and then 30 seconds later the connection is torn down with the bytes 0 SYN Timeout message.
I am running 8.0(5).
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There's a notion of inter vlan timeout connection ?
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What does a pinhole timeout indicate? [code]
ASA 5505 8.4(2)
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We had an issue the other day where doing backups through the firewall (don't ask) caused the "control" session to timeout while the backups were still going on over the "data" connection. This broke the backup about two hours into the job. My first thought was that the backup solution vendor should implement some kind of tcp keepalive for the control connection. A packet capture showed they indeed were -- after 2 hours! Ah ha! Busted! How could they choose such a poor choice of TCP keepalive timer for their application that would not be compatible with the 60 minute inactivity timer that so many firewall vendors use (Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint and Fortinet all use a default 60 minute inactivity timer for TCP)?
Well, a colleague of mine pointed out that there is actually an old RFC that covers this. RFC 1122. It says:
Keep-alive packets MUST only be sent when no data or acknowledgement packets have been received for the connection within an interval. This interval MUST be configurable and MUST default to no less than two hours.
Now I know that RFC is old (October 1989), but that's all I could find. Is there something that supercedes that? Maybe common sense perhaps? I understand not wanting to fill up your connection table because of mis-behaving applications, but I'm just looking for ammunition to use against the backup solution vendor. Surely they're going to point to this RFC.
ASA(config)# timeout conn ?
configure mode commands/options:
0:0:0 | <0:5:0> - <1193:0:0> Idle time after which a TCP connection state
will be closed, default is 1:00:00
<0-0> Specify this value to never time out
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timeout xlate 3:00:00
timeout conn 1:00:00 half-closed 0:10:00 udp 0:02:00 icmp 0:00:02
timeout sunrpc 0:10:00 h323 0:05:00 h225 1:00:00 mgcp 0:05:00 mgcp-pat 0:05:00
timeout sip 0:30:00 sip_media 0:02:00 sip-invite 0:03:00 sip-disconnect 0:02:00
timeout sip-provisional-media 0:02:00 uauth 0:05:00 absolute
timeout tcp-proxy-reassembly 0:01:00
arp timeout 14400
I've seen a couple articles about increasing the tcp timeout to 3 hours for the DMZ interface?
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I've installed cisco asa 5510.
When I "show local-host all detail connection "
Normal situation:
105 myfailover:10.255.255.2/0 NP Identity Ifc:10.255.255.1/0,
idle 0s, uptime 1D14h, timeout 2m0s, bytes 18196822
But I got this output ( timeout - )
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