Hello,

I just went through that exact same problem with a customer that migrated
from software version VPN-1 UTM to a UTM-1 appliance, everything used to
work perfect but after the change, uploads to a MS SharePoint server were
failing with timeouts, although it was not a constant issue.

Check Point support told me to change the parameters mentioned by Hugo with
the following commands:

# fw ctl set int fwtcpstr_allow_out_of_max_window 1
# fw ctl set int fwtcpstr_max_window 65536

But I bumped into problems because the first command one was not working on
R65 w/Messaging Security HFA25 (which came from factory with the appliance),
I had to go first to HFA30 and finally apply a non-publicly available hotfix
the support guy put in their FTP server, in order to be able to apply the
two commands.

The last hotfix mentioned was named
"fw1_HOTFIX_ENF_HF_HA30_056_620056001_1", so you can ask for it to support
if you decide to try it.

Now, since the problem was occurring only sometimes, and I applied this
solution last thursday, we are still in a monitoring phase and can't be 100%
sure it got completely resolved, but by the end of the day on friday, my
customer reported no issues so far.

Hope it helps.


On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Hugo van der Kooij <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> > Has anyone ever come across an issue where file uploads to IIS are
> > intermittently dropped?
> >
> > We have tested the uploads with an identically configured local server
> and a
> > remote server on our WAN behind FW-1, and the IIS upload session times
> out
> > with error 500.
>
> Use "fw monitor" to troubleshoot.
>
> Common known problems:
>  - Running out of your TCP window.
>  - Exceding the normal TCP window limit of FW-1 (which happens to be
> 10kB only).
>  - Selective acknowledgements.
>
> There is quite a bit about this in Secure Knowledge. Using "tcpstr" as
> keyword might lead you straight to it.
>
> Hugo.
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