Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-20 Thread Steven A. Ridder
The CBAC dosen't understand ESMTP commands I think. Don't watch smtp on CBAC. I ran into that problem before. ""Ray Brehm"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I have a 2621 with IOS IP/FW that I'm unable to connect through to the > inside SMTP server. I can conne

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-20 Thread MADMAN
Yes I have run into problems defining http also. The bottom line is I now only "inspect" TCP, UDP and FTP. These cover all the others without breaking them!!! Dave "Steven A. Ridder" wrote: > > The CBAC dosen't understand ESMTP commands I think. Don't watch smtp on > CBAC. I ran into that

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-20 Thread Ray Brehm
Steven A. Ridder wrote: >The CBAC dosen't understand ESMTP commands I think. Don't watch smtp on >CBAC. I ran into that problem before. > I'm not actually doing CBAC on the inbound traffic, I'm just letting it through with the access list. At any rate, I removed the IP inspect command from th

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-20 Thread Ray Brehm
MADMAN wrote: >Yes I have run into problems defining http also. The bottom line is I >now only "inspect" TCP, UDP and FTP. These cover all the others without >breaking them!!! > thanks for the heads up I just updated IOS to v12.2.6a (I know I'm crazy but I might want cisco's support) what vers

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-20 Thread Steven A. Ridder
For furture reference, once you enable CBAC on an interface, it MONITORS traffic in both directions. As for the SMTP thing, you remove ip inspect from the interface, and you can telnet into the server at port 25? Do I have that right? You SURE you removed it? Cause if you can get in via 25 via

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-20 Thread Ray Brehm
Steven A. Ridder wrote: >For furture reference, once you enable CBAC on an interface, it MONITORS >traffic in both directions. > did not know it worked that way, I'll have to go back to the books again > >As for the SMTP thing, you remove ip inspect from the interface, and you can >telnet into t

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-20 Thread MADMAN
Ray Brehm wrote: > > MADMAN wrote: > > >Yes I have run into problems defining http also. The bottom line is I > >now only "inspect" TCP, UDP and FTP. These cover all the others without > >breaking them!!! > > > thanks for the heads up > I just updated IOS to v12.2.6a (I know I'm crazy but I mi

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-20 Thread Steven A. Ridder
Try removing the access lists next. I can't see how POP get's in and smtp dosen't, especially with CBAC off now. ""MADMAN"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Ray Brehm wrote: > > > > MADMAN wrote: > > > > >Yes I have run into problems defining http also. The bott

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-21 Thread Ray Brehm
Steven A. Ridder wrote: >Try removing the access lists next. I can't see how POP get's in and smtp >dosen't, especially with CBAC off now. > I removed all access control from the interface and I still get the same problem. I'm going to test it on another router then I'm going after cisco with

RE: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-21 Thread Kent Hundley
ill_ doesn't work, I would definitely consider replacing the router. HTH, Kent -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794] Steven A. Ridder wrote:

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-21 Thread Steven A. Ridder
definitely consider replacing the > router. > > HTH, > Kent > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 8:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794] > &g

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-21 Thread Steven A. Ridder
; > > > This will give you a good idea of what's happening at the packet level. > > > > If it _still_ doesn't work, I would definitely consider replacing the > > router. > > > > HTH, > > Kent > > > > -Original Message-

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-21 Thread MADMAN
If you have nothing blocking access to your mail server but SMTP still doesn't work why do you think the router is the issue?? Could it be the mail server Dave Ray Brehm wrote: > > Steven A. Ridder wrote: > > >Try removing the access lists next. I can't see how POP get's in and smtp >

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-21 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
You say you get "TCP errors when you try to send mail." What kind of TCP errors? Where are they reported? Are you just relying on Cisco diagnostics or have you watched what is really happening with a sniffer? Using a sniffer might reveal that something more than SMTP is involved. Since none of

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-21 Thread Ray Brehm
All right, I setup an exchange server and a pix firewall in my lab and I'm getting the same results. POP goes through but SMTP does not. I'm going to start looking at packet traffic locally to see what the exchange server is trying to do when port 25 is contacted. Message Posted at: http://

RE: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-21 Thread Keyur Shah
6 Fremont: 510.795.6815 Santa Clara: 408.496.0801 Europe: +(44)20 7900 3011 Fax: 510.291.2250 -Original Message- From: Ray Brehm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794] All right,

Re: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-21 Thread Ray Brehm
Eureka he exclaims while back-handing his Exchange engineer!!! And the answer is... After reading some more of your suggestions and grilling my "Exchange expert" on the server config, I did some poking around on the server myself. It seems that the SMTP virtual server was configured with conn

RE: IOS firewall, NAT and smtp [7:29794]

2001-12-22 Thread Elijah Savage
Priscilla, Once again you are right on track. I ran into this situation or one like it not long ago. I was not getting any tcp errors but mail was extremely slow. The one difference here is my firewall was a OpenBSD firewall. After putting a sniffer on the line I saw authentication trying to be u