MTU and TCP in PIX [7:61441]

2003-01-21 Thread Albert Lu
Hello Group, I've had this interesting thing happen with a PIX where tcp connection for HTTP was established through it however data does not pass through correctly, since there was no HTTP data being sent through. I noticed that the MTU for the outside and inside interfaces were different and cha

RE: MTU and TCP in PIX [7:61441]

2003-01-21 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
Albert Lu wrote: > > Hello Group, > > I've had this interesting thing happen with a PIX where tcp > connection for > HTTP was established through it however data does not pass > through > correctly, since there was no HTTP data being sent through. I > noticed that > the MTU for the outside and in

RE: MTU and TCP in PIX [7:61441]

2003-01-21 Thread Xueyan Liu
Since Priscilla has brought a very good point about fragmentation, I'll add my 2 cents. Worked with pix before but not an expert. Say PIX does fragment, would the return packet be recognized as a valid packet for a previously established session? Xueyan Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.c

RE: MTU and TCP in PIX [7:61441]

2003-01-21 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
Xueyan Liu wrote: > > Since Priscilla has brought a very good point about > fragmentation, I'll add my 2 cents. Worked with pix before but > not an expert. Say PIX does fragment, would the return packet > be recognized as a valid packet for a previously established > session? The return packets s

RE: MTU and TCP in PIX [7:61441]

2003-01-22 Thread BJ Rice
Actually the PIX by default will allow fragmented packets. This can be a vulnerability for the PIX. A good policy is to enable FragGuard on the PIX. This insures the PIX sees the entire seegmented packet before letting it pass through its outside interface. Message Posted at: http://www.group

RE: MTU and TCP in PIX [7:61441]

2003-01-22 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
BJ Rice wrote: > > Actually the PIX by default will allow fragmented packets. That's not very nice of it. :-) > This can be a vulnerability for the PIX. A good policy is to > enable FragGuard on the PIX. This insures the PIX sees the > entire seegmented packet before letting it pass through

RE: MTU and TCP in PIX [7:61441]

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