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HiWe have two cat6k in the core with a layer 3 routed link between. The design is such that if an uplink fails the vlan on the msfc goes down, this is due to the vlans being unique on each switch in the network.My question is though when we install t...

We are wondering what the significance of the "ZZ" characters are in the HEX output of the alarms files (3.0 code)? We noticed that their is also a "==" in the base64 encoded information and we know that these are padding characters in base64 (4.0 c...

Is it currently possible to shun the Destination IP of an alarm?For example, if one of my users tries to open a Kazaa session with a remote site, alarm 11005 fires. In this case the user is the source and the kazaa server is the destination. Curren...

Hello,Can anybody tell me whether Cisco IDS and Netscreen firewall 1000 are compatible each others.Thanks in advance.

I recently re-installed the IDS MC to version 1.1.1I have added the snesors to the IDS MC and also to the Security monitor.Everytime I make a change and push out an update, it erases part of the config on the sensorthat relates to Post Office setting...

Hi there,We currently have two servers running VMS, one running the Monitor and one running the MC.If I want to back these systems up to an external Back-up Server, what files should I backup? what database is VMS running if it is running any? What a...

Hi,Can some one tell me how NAT works. I have the following problem:I have one IP address and one 2600 series router. I have setup an internal Lan with three hosts. I have configured my N/W with the following:1) Assigned FastEthernet 0/0 with the IP ...

Hi!I tried to upgrade IDS to the newest version but I got this message:Error: idsPackageMgr: signature was not valid.I tried to upgrade using IDM and CLI but the same message appeared.4.0(2)S47 is the version currently installed on IDS.What could be ...

I have a unix mailserver on the outside of my firewall. (It used to be our external dns as well)We want to bring it inside because the clients that we use to connect to it go directly through the firewall. What is the most secure way to do this so ...

In the documentation from cisco it states that you need to upgade 4220 sensors to 512 meg of memory. However when I go to Product Update the part number does not show up for my contract. I know that my SmartNet is up to date. Does anybody know whe...

Hi,I am having the following problem. When i do "conf t" the terminal freezes.I am running 6.3(1) on a pix 515E failover setup. This happened before. A reload resolved the problem.Does anyone know if this is a bug. I can't find it with the bugtool.Is...

Forgive my ignorance, I am new to the PIX firewall configuration. Here's what I'm trying to do. I have a proxy server (Microsoft ISA Server) in my DMZ with an address of 192.168.2.2. My DMZ interface address is 192.168.2.1. My Inside interface ha...