Hi Rob,

Generally the default timeout values should be fine.  These are *idle* 
timeout values, so if the connection is completed normally, the connection 
slot on the PIX is deleted and cannot be re-used in a continuation or 
spoofing attempt.

Hope that helps,

Lisa Napier
Product Security Incident Response Team
Cisco Systems
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/sec_incident_response.shtml



At 12:44 PM 08/02/2000 -0400, Rob Serfozo wrote:
>I have a Pix 515 and was wondering if anyone using a pix had suggestions on
>the timeout settings.  Do you just leave the Xlate, conn, and other to their
>default.  Or would it be a better security policy to lower these timeouts.
>
>Thanks,
>Rob Serfozo
>
>
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