Firewall-1

Re: [FW-1] Cannot connect until after ping

Subject: Re: [FW-1] Cannot connect until after ping
From: "Erik A. Widholm" <erik.widholm AT MOODY DOT EDU>
To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST AT AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT DOT COM
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:31:10 -0500
Additional details:


The switch's perspective (monitor port, using Ethereal 0.10.7):
  1   0.00000 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu HTTP C port=2521
  2   2.99032 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu HTTP C port=2521
  3   5.93445 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu HTTP C port=2521
  4  20.52164 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu HTTP C port=2531
  5   3.01498 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu HTTP C port=2531
  6   5.26413 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu ICMP Echo request (ID: 512 
Sequence number: 62977)
  7   0.00000 portfolio.moody.edu -> 66.185.250.1 ICMP Echo reply (ID: 512 
Sequence number: 62977)
  8   0.77089 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu HTTP C port=2531
  9   0.00082 portfolio.moody.edu -> 66.185.250.1 HTTP R port=2531
 10   0.00015 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu HTTP C port=2531

FW1's perspective (fw monitor):
  1   0.00000 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu ICMP Echo request (ID: 512 
Sequence number: 62977)
  2   0.00011 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu ICMP Echo request (ID: 512 
Sequence number: 62977)
  3   0.00001 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu ICMP Echo request (ID: 512 
Sequence number: 62977)
  4   0.00002 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu ICMP Echo request (ID: 512 
Sequence number: 62977)
  5   0.00046 portfolio.moody.edu -> 66.185.250.1 ICMP Echo reply (ID: 512 
Sequence number: 62977)
  6   0.00003 portfolio.moody.edu -> 66.185.250.1 ICMP Echo reply (ID: 512 
Sequence number: 62977)
  7   0.00001 portfolio.moody.edu -> 66.185.250.1 ICMP Echo reply (ID: 512 
Sequence number: 62977)
  8   0.00001 portfolio.moody.edu -> 66.185.250.1 ICMP Echo reply (ID: 512 
Sequence number: 62977)
  9   0.77262 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu HTTP C port=2531
 10   0.00019 66.185.250.1 -> portfolio.moody.edu HTTP C port=2531

You will notice that FW1 doesn't even see the connection until after the ICMP 
has started! Look at the port numbers of the http request...

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