I have a 3825 running 12.3(14)T4. On my serial port I have a T3/E3 card connecting to an MPLS cloud with about 40 sites and on my Gi0/1 port I have a SonicWall VPN concentrator connected to approx 200 sites. My servers are located off the Gi0/0 port. Typical throughput through the router averages about 2.0 MB through the Gi0/1 port and about 10 MB through the serial port.
The router has 256MB of memory installed and about 128MB available. I am loading 64 signatures with all the signatures set to alarm only. All other signatures have been deleted.
After enabling IPS on the Gi0/0 outbound interface, everything works fine for several hours and then users begin complaining about a loss of connectivity. Users can't connect to web sites nor can they log in to the AD and telnet and Citrix sessions get dropped and cannot be reestablished. The logs show no signatures being triggered and my session thresholds are well below max connection limits. Once IPS is disabled, all problems disappear instantly. This has happened on three different occasions.
Results from sho ip inspect conf (after IPS has been turned off) are as follows;
Session audit trail is enabled Session alert is enabled one-minute (sampling period) thresholds are [4500:100000000] connections max-incomplete sessions thresholds are [4500:20000000] max-incomplete tcp connections per host is 100000. Block-time 0 minute. tcp synwait-time is 30 sec -- tcp finwait-time is 5 sec tcp idle-time is 32400 sec -- udp idle-time is 30 sec dns-timeout is 5 sec
Results from sho ip inspect stat (after IPS has been turned off) are as follows;
Packet inspection statistics [process switch:fast switch] tcp packets: [3669185:366719687] udp packets: [6797247:165723639] packets: [1441881:3408917] packets: [6801515:319778749] Interfaces configured for inspection 0 Session creations since subsystem startup or last reset 511218 Current session counts (estab/half-open/terminating) [3489:380:5] Maxever session counts (estab/half-open/terminating) [0:0:0] Last session created 2d06h Last statistic reset 2d13h Last session creation rate 1585 Last half-open session total 0
Results from sho ip ips stat (after IPS has been turned off) are;
Interfaces configured for ips 0 Session creations since subsystem startup or last reset 511218 Current session counts (estab/half-open/terminating) [3512:385:7] Maxever session counts (estab/half-open/terminating) [0:0:0] Last session created 2d06h Last statistic reset 2d13h
Any advice is appreciated.