Hi all,

I'm using Proventia G100 with FW rule and having some troubles.
Does anyone know how proventia G FW function works?

Currently, my Proventia G FW rule has several rules like this;
 #1  adapter any ip src addr any dst addr any tcp dst port 25 MONITOR
 #18 adapter any ip src addr any dst addr any DROP

so, all SMTP connections are supporsed to be MONITORED by rule #1 and
rule #18 should be worked as a clean-up rule.

allmost all SMTP connection are passed but some of them are dropped by
clean-up rule according to fw log.

2005/06/22,18:03:29,1,TCP,192.168.1.70,67.28.114.35,2144,25,MONITOR
2005/06/22,18:03:29,1,TCP,192.168.1.70,67.28.114.35,2144,25,MONITOR
2005/06/22,18:03:30,1,TCP,192.168.1.70,67.28.114.35,2144,25,MONITOR
2005/06/22,18:03:30,18,TCP,67.28.114.35,192.168.1.70,25,2144,DROP
2005/06/22,18:03:31,1,TCP,192.168.1.70,67.28.114.35,2144,25,MONITOR
2005/06/22,18:03:31,18,TCP,67.28.114.35,192.168.1.70,25,2144,DROP
2005/06/22,18:03:34,1,TCP,192.168.1.70,67.28.114.35,2144,25,MONITOR
2005/06/22,18:03:34,18,TCP,67.28.114.35,192.168.1.70,25,2144,DROP
2005/06/22,18:03:39,1,TCP,192.168.1.70,67.28.114.35,2144,25,MONITOR
2005/06/22,18:03:39,18,TCP,67.28.114.35,192.168.1.70,25,2144,DROP
2005/06/22,18:03:49,1,TCP,192.168.1.70,67.28.114.35,2144,25,MONITOR
2005/06/22,18:04:09,1,TCP,192.168.1.70,67.28.114.35,2144,25,MONITOR
2005/06/22,18:04:49,1,TCP,192.168.1.70,67.28.114.35,2144,25,MONITOR
2005/06/22,18:06:10,1,TCP,192.168.1.70,67.28.114.35,2144,25,MONITOR

As you can see, dropped packets seem to be reply packets from SMTP
server. I've tried to figure out what's going on and it seems FW rule
drops *retransmitted* FIN/ACK packets .
I used ethereal and found several retransmitted FIN+ACK packets from
client to SMTP server to get ACK packet from SMTP server to close.
Since SMTP server already sent ACK packet to close session, Proventia
G FW rule #1 doesn't think it belongs to established SMTP connection.
That's my guess and I need Proventia G FW detailed information to
explain this behavior.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
---
Tetsuo Okuda
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