Re: remote crash possibility of FW-1?

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

Have you closed down the rcp services on this machine?  how about things
like the tbttserver <or whatever it's called>? last resort, put a sniffer
in front of it to capture and log packets so you can get an idea as to
what might be taking it out.

Thabnks,

Ron DuFresne

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Thomas Nau wrote:

> Hi there.
> We use Checkpoints Firewall-I release 4.0 SP 4 running on a SUN U2/200
> Solaris 2.6 with up-to-date patchlevel. For several weeks now the box
> crashes or reboots without any hint left in the logfiles. SUN service
> replaced all components (FDDI, RAM, CPUs, ...) except for the mirrored
> disks. Since most of the crashes happen during the weekend we also suspect
> some DOS attack. Are there any known DOS attacks than leave the box
> unusable till someone does a power-off-on cycle?
>
> Thomas
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