Sounds like a memory leak. Run perfmon.exe for a few days and watch the
memory and CPU to see if usage steadily climbs. Just before it crashes you
should be able to identify the culprit in the task monitor.
If it's not obvious, you can also schedule a reboot every other day with
an AT script. Rainwall S-1 would prevent that reboot from disrupting any
traffic sessions.
HTH,
Jack Coates, Rainfinity SE
t: 650-962-5301 m: 650-280-4376
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Paul Hansson wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We have been suffering from a strange complaint on our FW-1 system for some
> time now and I wonder if any of you out there have the same or similar
> problem, or even if you have managed to fix the problem.
>
> Our system is Firewall-1 v4.0 Build 4055 running on NT4-sp5. Prior to this
> we were running various builds of 3.0b on NT4 with various service packs.
> The hardware has always been a Digital 3200R server, Pentium II 266, 256MB
> RAM.
>
> We have three interfaces. The internet, our DMZ and our internal network. We
> are using NAT to map between our public address space and the systems on the
> DMZ and internal networks. We also have a VPN in place to two sites using
> FWZ encryption.
>
> Over a period of time the response of the system will get slower and slower
> until we reach a point when it becomes unusable and we need to reboot the
> firewall box. After the reboot performance is fine. We must reboot the
> system, restarting the Firewall services does not solve the problem.
>
> This period of time varies greatly. Sometimes it will be two weeks between
> reboots, other times it may be that we need to reboot the system twice a
> day. Five to seven days of uptime seems to be the average.
>
> We have followed the information on the Checkpoint web-site regarding
> tuning, but this does not seem to have solved this problem. Upgrading
> through various releases of FW-1 and NT service packs also does not seem to
> solve the problem. So far, various tech. support staff have been unable to
> assist us.
>
> Has anybody got any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
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> Kockums Computer Systems (UK) Ltd
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> North Shields, Tyne & Wear NE29 6DE, UK
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>
>
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