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Cisco ASA Typical Connection Status indicators

Typical CISCO Asa status indicators:

  • TCP FINs - The remote server tore down the connection (typical for HTTP or FTP connections). Normal close down sequence.
  • TCP Reset-I - The client tore down the connection (typical in an SMTP or IMAP exchange). Reset was from the inside (high security).
  • TCP Reset-O - The server was not listening on that protocol at that time (usually seen as coming from SMTP servers). Reset was from the outside (low security).
  • FIN Timeout - Force termination after 10 minutes awaiting the last ACK or after half-closed timeout
  • SYN Timeout - Forced termination after two minutes awaiting three-way handshake completion
  • Deny - Terminated by application inspection
  • SYN Control - Back channel initiation from wrong side
  • Uauth Deny - Denied by URL filter
  • Xlate Clear - Command-line removal (when the administrators sends the "clear xlate" command)
  • Unknown - None of the indicators above (but yet terminated)
  • Conn-timeout - Connection ended because it was idle longer than the configured idle timeout
  • Flow closed by inspection - Flow was terminated by inspection feature
  • Flow terminated by IPS
  • Flow reset by IPS
  • Invalid SYN - SYN packet not valid
  • Idle Timeout - Connection timed out because it was idle longer than timeout value
  • IPS fail-close - Flow was terminated due to IPS card down
  • TCP bad retransmission - Connection terminated because of bad TCP retransmission
  • TCP FINs -
  • TCP Invalid SYN - Invalid TCP SYN packet
  • TCP segment partial overlap - Detected a partially overlapping segment
  • TCP unexpected window size variation - Connection terminated due to variation in the TCP window size
  • Tunnel has been torn down - Flow terminated because tunnel is down

grabbed from http://serverfault.com/questions/514226/newbie-need-help-deciphering-firewall-log-files-cisco-asa-5520 and http://blog.jhe.co/2009/10/asa-teardown-tcp-connection-log-message.html

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