Lotus

Also looking for a PSU to go with it.

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Is there a switch I should be using with dumpchk.exe? This is really annoying. I keep losing work do to the comp going blue screen on me. Any additional advice would be greatly appreciated.

I have a VPN set up between two businesses, for some odd reason the whole thing stopped working. Hardware is Symantec Firewall/VPN 100 at both locations. I have it set up like they say to on the website and documentation CD. We have static IP's which have not changed. I notice we are under constant port scan attack...every 30-60 seconds. * It was down all day yesterday and now it's up again, just checked. * I was finally able to ping the computer behind the vpn/firewall at the other location. What would cause it to keep going down? Even after reseting everything it still won't work. When I pinged it a second ago, 1 of 4 pings made it... When I pinged again, 2 made it, then the third time all pings made it and didn't time out. I don't understand why it works "some" times. All the settings have been gone over time and time again, by two different people.

I'll give them a call today to see what they can do. That log is one of 4 pages filled with attacks. It's kind of annoying heh.

The file is a mini dump file...does that make a diff?

ANy idea what would make the connection intermittent "some days"?

Log UTC Time Message Source 08/07/2003 23:30:19.91 Port Scan attack !!! 24.148.65.79:3374 08/07/2003 23:30:28.91 Port Scan attack !!! 24.148.65.79:3374 08/07/2003 23:46:54.66 Port Scan attack !!! 24.28.62.172:2294 08/07/2003 23:47:03.61 Port Scan attack !!! 24.28.62.172:2294 08/07/2003 23:55:35.91 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.174.52:4736 08/07/2003 23:56:05.31 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.174.52:4896 08/08/2003 00:00:41.71 Port Scan attack !!! 24.53.0.136:2842 08/08/2003 00:00:50.61 Port Scan attack !!! 24.53.0.136:2842 08/08/2003 00:05:47.86 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.164.108:1596 08/08/2003 00:19:26.31 Port Scan attack !!! 66.188.195.206:3486 08/08/2003 00:27:45.41 Port Scan attack !!! 218.90.178.145:2315 08/08/2003 00:31:52.86 Port Scan attack !!! 203.192.11.30:1065 08/08/2003 00:33:24.81 Port Scan attack !!! 218.15.192.64:30099 08/08/2003 00:52:29.56 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.174.52:2102 08/08/2003 00:56:20.71 Port Scan attack !!! 62.62.139.253:3833 08/08/2003 00:57:39.86 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.77.111:2836 08/08/2003 01:02:57.91 Port Scan attack !!! 61.177.227.45:2077 08/08/2003 01:22:36.11 Port Scan attack !!! 24.209.175.44:2281 08/08/2003 01:22:51.91 Port Scan attack !!! 24.209.175.44:2281 08/08/2003 01:23:07.96 Port Scan attack !!! 24.209.175.44:2281 08/08/2003 01:31:00.76 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.187.62:3670 08/08/2003 01:41:58.61 Port Scan attack !!! 12.248.64.98:4361 08/08/2003 01:48:32.11 Port Scan attack !!! 218.15.192.64:30099 08/08/2003 02:01:21.36 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.221.200:1945 08/08/2003 02:24:18.46 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.76.159:4857 08/08/2003 02:24:27.51 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.76.159:4857 08/08/2003 02:37:26.36 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.76.159:4883 08/08/2003 02:37:35.31 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.76.159:4883 08/08/2003 02:49:01.61 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.81.212:3612 08/08/2003 02:58:09.66 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.76.159:4108 08/08/2003 02:58:18.61 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.76.159:4108 08/08/2003 03:02:26.31 Port Scan attack !!! 67.117.23.149:3142 08/08/2003 03:02:35.31 Port Scan attack !!! 67.117.23.149:3142 08/08/2003 03:06:24.31 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.33.55:3674 08/08/2003 03:07:24.16 Port Scan attack !!! 218.15.192.64:30099 08/08/2003 03:10:50.36 Port Scan attack !!! 65.88.92.140:1474 08/08/2003 03:10:56.31 Port Scan attack !!! 65.88.92.140:1474 08/08/2003 03:21:25.01 Port Scan attack !!! 12.255.148.153:2647 08/08/2003 03:21:34.01 Port Scan attack !!! 12.255.148.153:2647 08/08/2003 03:22:25.06 Port Scan attack !!! 67.20.76.159:3841 ============================================== Here is part of the log...I removed my IP Most are TCP and UDP..there were also like 7 or 8 HTTP as well. The log from our other business looks just like this. Filled with port scan attacks etc..

I just went to try and log into the router...I can't even get into it. Same thing happened with it yesterday. Took like an hour before I was able to log into it. Strange. Maybe my switch is on the fritz.

I have talked to a few other people who also said that the DOS would cause the VPN to go down. If I change IP addresses (which are static right now) wouldn't the problem just come back? Is there anything I can do settings wise, that would help? Or is changing the IP the way I'll have to go?

No not a thing.

Well, I'm having no luck. It says it can't initialize the dump file. Is there another way to trace the address to a driver?

Thanks

Will dumpchk.exe for Win NT 4.0 work with 2000 Pro? If not is there a dumpchk.exe for Win2k? I don't see it listed on the Win2k Resource Kit download page.

*bump* =) I need to track this problem down!

Anyone know another place to download the network install of SP4 other than M$? It's 132 megs and I am downloading at 3.6kbps from them on cable. It started out at 90 then was at 3.6 30 seconds later. Gonna take like 5 hours at that speed...I am making an intergrated Win2k SP4 cd and wanted to get started on it. If you know of another trustworthy link, please bring it to my attention =)

How do I trace the address to the driver? I can't figure this one out.

All set man...thanks. I let it go overnight, and after a few tries..finally got it! Thanks anyway. =)

I downloaded the debugging tools from microsoft, but have never done a debug before. I typed in kd> ln "Address" It says use positive decimal value

I can't get the LN command to work in debug. Am I missing something here?

I just noticed while going over my system information that IRQ 9 has a billion things on it. NIC card, Sound Card, USB Host Controller, ACPI-Compliant System, VIA USB Host Controller,. Now I have never had to change IRQ's with Win2K as of yet. Using device manager I went into resources and it is all greyed out. How do I change IRQ's? There are 8 listings in IRQ Conflicts for IRQ9 This might be half my problem with memory dumps and freezing on shutdown.

Ever since the release of SP3 for Win2k Pro, my system freezes during shutdown. It saves settings, then says windows is shutting down, and when that dialog goes away, FREEZE. I can hear my hard drive shutdown the moment it happens. I have tried everything I can think of; Up[censored] BIOS Up[censored] IDE Controllers Up[censored] all software on my system Up[censored] fully via Windows Update (As of 12:00 today) There is nothing in the event viewer reguarding this..I assume because windows is already shutdown at the point of this happening. Is there any program that will log what is going on during shutdown, or is there a log I can currently look at. The computer is a work pc... Dell Dimension L933r Is there anything else I can try? I reformatted about a month ago and as soon as SP3 was installed the problem was back. What was changed in SP3 as far as shutdown related files/services? I am going to go look through the Knoledge Base AGAIN heh...maybe I missed something. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Also... Since SP4 my system keeps doing a memory dump 3 or 4 times a day. Any insight? I'll look up something on that as well. Thanks! - Lotus

Quote: update hardware drivers? is there anything in the Event viewer around the time of the dumps? Hardware is all updated as of this morning.. And nothing in the event viewer. It's something that started in Service Pack 3, I just can't figure out what is the cause. It's really annoying. I have been looking on the net and can't find a solution...yet.

If you know roughly the time frame this person is doing this, you could do a simple advanced search for files or programs that have been accessed around that time. I'm sure there are programs out there that will track and log this type of thing for you, I just don't know any. We had the same thing happen here where I work...but I knew the time he/she was doing this..that made it easy to trace using file searching. Good luck to you...hopefully someone will answer your question a little better.

Quote: what are you system specs? Thats just it, I would be running it on my PII 400 box. Has 384megs pc133 ram on an Asus P2B motherboard. It runs Win2K beautiful, but when I ran the RC1 and RC2 of WinXP Pro, it ran like crap. I'm sure with all the tweaks out there and the fact it has SP1 now, it would run fine, but won't know until I try it.