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(ASCEND) Pipeline firewall prevents profile changes
I have several old (with switches) Pipeline 75's with Secure Access
firewalls. I have been keeping their firmware up to date (currently
5.0Ap13). In the past six months or so I have begun to notice that I
can't make non-firewall-related profile changes in them. I'll make the
change with telnet, type ESC 2, and the Pipeline will respond "Cannot
save profile. No space in NVRAM." Worse yet, sometimes it will respond
"Profile saved" but not actually save the changes.
I called Ascend tech support about this, and they said, not
unreasonably, that the space required for my Secure Access firewall was
causing the problem, and the problem would be cured if I bought one of
the newer Pipeline 75's with larger memories. Not unreasonable, but
wrong. I have exactly the same problem in a new (without switch)
Pipeline 75 running firmware 5.0B.
Last evening I finally found a work-around, although it's ugly. First,
you empty out your firewalls, by "restoring" the following profile
snippet:
START=FWALL=200=0
END=FWALL=200=0
START=FWALL=200=1
END=FWALL=200=1
START=FWALL=200=2
END=FWALL=200=2
END DOWNLOAD
Then you make whatever non-firewall-related profile changes you had in
mind. Finally you re-install your firewalls using Secure Access
Manager.
I have only one firewall, and it's about 900 bytes long (according to
the Ethernet->Firewalls menu).
Three questions:
1) How much firewall space can I use before I hit the problem?
(clearly 900 bytes hits the problem)
2) Is there a less-ugly work-around?
3) Does Ascend plan to fix it for newer Pipelines?
for older Pipelines?
Thanks,
Ed McCreight
Adobe Systems Inc.
mccreight@adobe.com
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