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Blink Firewall Bugs

Last post 06-22-2009 9:05 AM by JayEff. 2 replies.
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  • 06-16-2009 10:28 AM

    Blink Firewall Bugs

    In addition to the Security center issue noted in the topic "Firewall not working!" I have noticed two very big problems with the Blink firewall, one I recall reporting more than a year ago.

     

    1.  Firewall kills network activity. - At some seeming random point in time the network just stops working.  Disabling the Blink Firewall in Quick Configuration quickly fixes the problem.  The Firewall can be re-enabled and the network works again (until the next reoccurance).  This was reported by me back in Blink 3.0 beta.

    2.  Firewall causes VNC connections to freeze.  Soon (5 minutes) after initiating a VNC connection (test using LAN based PC to PC connection) the connection just freezes.  The VNC will then time out after about 20 minutes and die.  The connection can be closed and reinitiated without problem, but this is very inconvenient.  Disabling the Blink Firewall and the problem no longer occurs and VNC connections can remain running for hours even days.

     

    I suspect both these issues have to do with the amount of traffic (testing I nearly saturate the 100MBit network connection), the switch is cabable of handling over 1GBit, but all connections are limited to 100Mbit.  Without the firewall it can be fully saturated before I experience packet loss.

     

    JRF
  • 06-17-2009 1:53 PM In reply to

    Re: Blink Firewall Bugs

    Since you can reproduce these issues, can you do a debugging run and send the reports to lnicula@eeye.com and bpatten@eeye.com?  I would include a link to this post so they can post any comments if necessary.

    Instructions on how to do this would be located here:  http://www.eeye.com/html/support/kb/view.html?id=KB000802

    I would recommend disabling all of the components in Blink, except the firewall, and then do the debugging.

    I hope eEye can assist with this issue for you.

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  • 06-22-2009 9:05 AM In reply to

    Re: Blink Firewall Bugs

    Thanks Blue, I have already taken the steps to isolate the firewall.  Disabling it removes these issues from repeating.  (Meaning the problem goes away)

    I have also upgraded my vncviewer, which seems to have many improvements including not freezing as often. But it still freezes.

    I'll continue with the bug report as you suggested.  Thanks again.

     

     

    JRF
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