It's the following line from the destination server trying to come back
to our firewall that generates the icmp after the passive session is
attempted.

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: Torkel Mathisen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [FW-1] Passive FTP error , help


I agree. This doesn't look like the line relating to the ftp.

However; if you want to fix the icmp problem go to SmartDefense, IP and
ICMP, Max Ping Size and increase that. You probably want to try with 128
or something.

Regards,
Torkel


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinhard Stich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 3. april 2003 08:12
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [FW-1] Passive FTP error , help
>
>
> hi,
>
> are you sure this is the correct log for ftp?
>
> if you look at the service in this line you will see that this is an
> icmp packet, not tcp (as ftp is).
>
> please re-check your logs.
>
> does "normal" ftp work? do you use a special ftp-client?
>
> cheers
> reinhard
>
> At 16:09 02.04.2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have a rule for a user to go out to an Ftp server using passive-ftp

> >service, accept and log. All of a sudden he cant connect anymore, and

> >the log viewer
> reports  on
> >that rule:
> >
> >Attack info: Echo request too long: icmp-type 8; imcp-code: 0;
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Nick Duda, CCSA
> >Network Administrator
> >
> >
> >
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