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McAfee
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IntruShield
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IPS System IntruShield Best Practices
Special Topics: Best Practices Ensuring connectivity between the sensor and other network devices
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Use the following commands to verify fixed interface settings on some Cisco devices
that connect to IntruShield sensors:
Cisco PIX® Firewall
interface ethernet0 100full
Cisco CSS 11000
interface ethernet-3
phy 100Mbits-FD
Cisco Catalyst® 2900XL, 3500XL Series (Hybrid)
interface FastEthernet0/2
duplex full
speed 100
Cisco Catalyst 4000, 5000, 6000 Series (Native)
set port speed 1/1 100
set port duplex 1/1 full
Cisco IOS® for Catalyst 4000, 6000 Series
Router(config)# interface fastethernet slot/port
Router(config-if)# speed 100
Router(config-if)# duplex full
When troubleshooting IntruShield performance issues with Cisco switches, view the
output of the
show port mod/port command, and note the counter information.
Explanation of CatOS show port command counters
Counter Description Possible Causes
Alignment
Errors
Alignment errors are a count of the
number of frames received that do not
end with an even number of octets and
have a bad CRC.
These are the result of collisions at half-duplex,
duplex mismatch, bad hardware (NIC, cable, or port),
or a connected device generating frames that do not
end with on an octet and have a bad FCS.
FCS FCS error count is the number of
frames that were transmitted or
received with a bad checksum (CRC
value) in the Ethernet frame. These
frames are dropped and not propagated
onto other ports.
These are the result of collisions at half-duplex,
duplex mismatch, bad hardware (NIC, cable, or port),
or a connected device generating frames with bad
FCS.
Xmit-Err This is an indication that the internal
transmit buffer is full.
This is an indication of excessive input rates of traffic.
This is also an indication of transmit buffer being full.
The counter should only increment in situations in
which the switch is unable to forward out the port at
a desired rate. Situations such as excessive collisions
and 10 Mb ports cause the transmit buffer to become
full. Increasing speed and moving the link partner to
full-duplex should minimize this occurrence.
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