[isalist] Re: Outlook from VPN creates lots of denied tcp traffic

  • From: Jim Harrison <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:29:26 -0700

Amy,

 

The consistent thing about those log entries (not_syn) is that they indicate
one of two possibilities:

1.       The connection between OL and the Exch server was half-closed and
the other side continued trying to send traffic (not illegal, but definitely
rude and ISA/TMG reject this)

2.       The routing for this traffic is split (one path not through TMG) -
this isn't likely since you have a W2W connection - UNLESS you have a
dual-link connection (some folks see this as "redundant")

 

If you know you're having other problems for this link, these log entries
may simply be symptomatic.

 

Jim

 

From: isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isalist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Amy Babinchak
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 17:08
To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isalist] Outlook from VPN creates lots of denied tcp traffic

 

I'm seeing a lot of denied TCP traffic coming from machines running Outlook
from the other side of our site-site VPN. I'm pretty sure that we narrowed
it down to only occurring when outlook is open. 

Here's a sample:

 

Original Client IP               Client Agent       Authenticated Client
Service Server Name     Referring Server               Destination Host Name
Transport            MIME Type         Object Source   Source Proxy
Destination Proxy            Bidirectional                Client Host Name
Filter Information            Network Interface          Raw IP Header  Raw
Payload      GMT Log Time      Source Port        Processing Time
Bytes Sent          Bytes Received Result Code        HTTP Status Code
Cache Information          Error Information             Log Record Type
Authentication Server   Client IP               Log Time      Destination IP
Destination Port               Protocol               Action   Rule
Client Username              Source Network                Destination
Network      HTTP Method    URL

192.168.200.18                                                  FIREWALL
-                              TCP        -
No                          -              192.168.200.23  45 00 00 28 2b 4a
40 00 80 06 8b 8a c0 a8 c8 12 c0 a8 fa 97 04 05 0e 2d 69 d5 e5 6d 5e fb 2f
39 50 11 fd 5c 7e d1 00 00    4/26/2010 11:52:32 PM  1029       0
0              0              0xc0040017 FWX_E_TCP_NOT_SYN_PACKET_DROPPED
0x0         0x0         Firewall                -
192.168.200.18  4/26/2010 7:52:32 PM          192.168.250.151
3629       Unidentified IP Traffic (TCP:3629)             Denied Connection
Internal                Internal                -              -

192.168.200.18                                                  FIREWALL
-                              TCP        -
No                          -              192.168.200.23  45 00 00 28 2b 51
40 00 80 06 8b 83 c0 a8 c8 12 c0 a8 fa 97 00 87 0e 2c 11 ed 58 92 ee 89 fe
b9 50 11 fb 88 09 d9 00 00    4/26/2010 11:52:32 PM  135         0
0              0              0xc0040017 FWX_E_TCP_NOT_SYN_PACKET_DROPPED
0x0         0x0         Firewall                -
192.168.200.18  4/26/2010 7:52:32 PM          192.168.250.151
3628       Unidentified IP Traffic (TCP:3628)             Denied Connection
Internal                Internal                -              -

192.168.200.18                                                  FIREWALL
-                              TCP        -
No                          -              192.168.200.23  45 00 00 28 2b 54
40 00 80 06 8b 80 c0 a8 c8 12 c0 a8 fa 97 04 07 0e 2f 31 f6 a5 49 c0 6c 74
dd 50 10 fa 2c 52 ec 00 00          4/26/2010 11:52:34 PM  1031       0
0              0              0xc0040017 FWX_E_TCP_NOT_SYN_PACKET_DROPPED
0x0         0x0         Firewall                -
192.168.200.18  4/26/2010 7:52:34 PM          192.168.250.151
3631       Unidentified IP Traffic (TCP:3631)             Denied Connection
Internal                Internal                -              -

192.168.200.18                                                  FIREWALL
-                              TCP        -
No                          -              192.168.200.23  45 00 00 28 2b 70
40 00 80 06 8b 64 c0 a8 c8 12 c0 a8 fa 97 00 87 0e 2c 11 ed 58 93 ee 89 fe
b9 50 10 fb 88 09 d9 00 00    4/26/2010 11:52:38 PM  135         0
0              0              0xc0040017 FWX_E_TCP_NOT_SYN_PACKET_DROPPED
0x0         0x0         Firewall                -
192.168.200.18  4/26/2010 7:52:38 PM          192.168.250.151
3628       Unidentified IP Traffic (TCP:3628)             Denied Connection
Internal                Internal                -              -

 

It will continue through a whole range of TCP ports. Pause for a while,
Outlook will lose its connection to the server and then it starts up again
and Outlook reconnects. It's driving me crazy. Now, outlook disconnecting
and reconnecting could be something entirely different since this connection
seems to be having other strange issues that we're having AT&T look at. But
I can turn this packets on and off by opening Outlook. Ideas for cleaning
this up?

 

Thanks,

 

Amy

 

 

 

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