State table not recovering on CARP backup machine

2007-01-15 Thread Christopher Snell
Hi All, We saw a strange issue today with two of our CARP'ed firewalls. At two different points in the afternoon, the state table suddenly jumped from it's normal level of around 30,000 entries to the limit of 200,000 entries. As expected, no new states could be created. We drove to our

Re: State table not recovering on CARP backup machine

2007-01-15 Thread Kian Mohageri
On 1/15/07, Christopher Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody experienced sudden surges of state entries like this? Denial of service attack perhaps? There has been a surge of SYN scanning from machines on our network that were affected by the Symantec hole. That created a few thousand