Re: [FW-1] Management Station not listening on tcp/257

[Mark Ward <mark.ward@FW1-NOSPAMAPPLICABLE.COM>]

do you have any of your cisco routers sending to the same station as well as
I have seen instances where syslog messages from ciscos have messed with the
log viewer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Duffy" <pakkit@CODEPIRANHA.ORG>
To: <FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 5:47 PM
Subject: [FW-1] Management Station not listening on tcp/257


> All:
>
> We have had a problem for quite a while in our environment and I am trying
> desperately to fix it.  Yes, we will be upgrading to NG soon, but this is
> a very vital firewall so we are taking it very slowly.
>
> Anyway, here is the setup:
>
> Two HiAv Nokia 530s running FireWall-1 4.1
> One Windows 2000 4.1 Management station
>
> Every four hours or so, the manager stops listening on port 257 and, of
> course, starts sending RSTs to the modules when they try to log.  So we
> end up restarting the manager and logging resumes.  When it crashes, I am
> seeing the following messages in the Application Logs on the Manager:
>
> FireWall-1: failed to read log header !!: The process cannot access the
> file because another process has locked a portion of the file.
>
> There are a ton of these in the Event Viewer right around the time the
> logging mechanism on the manager crashes and stops listening.
>
> Now, the firewall modules so send a TON of logs back to the manager, so is
> it possible that it is simply the large amount of traffic that is crashing
> the log daemon?
>
> Or, what processes could be simultaneously trying to access the file?
>
> Anyone seen this before?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> shawn
> pakkit at codepiranha dot org
>
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