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    Killed my firewall from accessing FTP

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      fastcon68
      last edited by

      I killed my firewall.  I am running 1.2.1.  I updated the firewall rules from remote, and now I have no access to anything.

      I changed the ftp IP address in the nat area of the firewall and now I can't connect to the firewall or anything.  I will be back at my home site tomorrow.  I guess I reboot and fix the dameage tomorrow.  Anything what might have happened.
      RC

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        fastcon68
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        I found out after letting the firewall settle down (2 hours) it came back up.  When ever I try to access to the FTP server that is when it completely hangs up.  It takes about two hours for it come back up.

        I am going to do some testing this is with 1.2.1.  Everything was working fine.  The only change that I have made is enabling openVPN.  I am running IPSEC, OpenVPN, Snort, IPERF, and phpSysInfo.

        Anyone got any Ideas?

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          fastcon68
          last edited by

          Ok, All you experts out there, I just finished my testing.  I have identified that snort was the culprit.  With snort enabled all FTP access was blocked, and that blocked the IP that I was coming from for a hour.

          Snort is reporting a malformed packet coming from a cmd line FTP client to Cerberus FTP running on my vista workstation.  I only enable FTP on a as needed basis.

          I have the following SNORT rules enabled:
          attack-responces.rules
          backdoor.rules
          ddos.rules
          oracle.rules
          pop2.rules
          porn.rules
          specified-threats.rules
          spyware-put.rules
          web-attacks.rules
          x11.rules

          Can anyone tell my what to modify?  With snort running is is killing my efforts to work on OpenVPN and other activities because I currently have to move files via FTP.

          I currently have SNORT disabled and OpenVPN enabled and still have access.
          RC

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            s34get
            last edited by

            Think I have a similar problem. As far as I know I can tell you that the rules are not the origin but the ftp preprocessor. http://snort.org/docs/snort_htmanuals/htmanual_283/node101.html .

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