It's 6.3.5(145) that is the latest PIX release that will support all the 
flavors.  If you have a 515/515E, you can upgrade the memory and move to 
8.0.4(28), which is the last interim release for the PIX family in ASA code.  
If you have a 506E, it's probably time to look at a 5505-5 or 5505-50 for the 
environment.

6.1(3) is over 10 years old.  If you can't upgrade the memory, you could at 
least try the engineering special from 2008.

-ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael 
Malitsky
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:40 PM
To: Aaron; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] pix 6.1(3)

Fixup is an application-layer proxy.  In other words, it checks for the 
validity of traffic in the context of the actual protocol.  In version 7 and 
newer these are called "inspect".  Without it, you are left with a regular 
stateful firewall.

Michael 

________________________________________
From: Aaron [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 3:24 PM
To: Michael Malitsky; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] pix 6.1(3)

Thanks Michael, What does http fixup do ?  how would disabling fixup fix my 
issue ?

Aaron


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Malitsky [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:49 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] pix 6.1(3)

Sounds eerily familiar, although I can't find any notes for v6.  The first 
releases of 7 had a similar issue, caused by the firewall dropping any packets 
with MSS>negotiated size.
However, you options are very few.  Try disabling the http fixup to confirm it 
is the inspection engine causing the problem.  In version 6, there is no way to 
tune the inspection engines, on/off is the only button, so your only option is 
to upgrade.  I suggest trying 6.5.last (I think 6.5.105), if that doesn't work 
go to 7, the highest version that supports a PIX.  In v7 you can at least 
exempt the problem traffic from inspection.  Best option - upgrade to an ASA.

Michael

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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:51:16 -0500
From: "Aaron" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [c-nsp] pix 6.1(3)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"

Anyone ever dealt with a weird issue whereas when going to a certain website 
via a cisco pix, the tcp syn and syn/ack flow fine, but the final ack is lost 
inside the pix. ?  my sniffs seems to show this.



Aaron

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