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hc_andy_35682
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Mar 31, 2010

High connection rate (millions conns/sec)

Hi All,     Last night at close to 10.30pm, our cacti graphs showed a hugh spike in the number of connections/sec hitting the majority of our inside_vlans (forwarding vi...
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Cspillane_18296
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Apr 01, 2010
Hello hc_andy,

 

 

it's possible that if there were a sudden burst of traffic this is what caused the tmm process to restart. However, you mention that associated routers show normal traffic levels....which doesn't seem to match.

 

 

What version of TMOS are you running?

 

 

Are there any other devices using the forwarding VS's that might have been involved (aside from the routers), maybe a proxy server for instance?