Pullman Border Firewall Latency Changes, 2/19

Please see the following scheduled Information Technology Services (ITS) maintenance process:

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025

Start Time: 9 p.m.

End Time: 11:59 p.m.

The following work is being completed: ITS is updating Pullman Border firewall packet buffer latency limits. Latency limits will increase, allowing traffic to stay in the buffer for longer before being flagged and discarded. This change will decrease the chance that VPN and SMB (file transfers) will be flagged incorrectly as a threat and dropped.

All affected groups: WSU Pullman

All affected processes: Palo Alto Firewall Packet Buffer Latency Values

Duration of impact: No outage is expected, but the entire maintenance window is reserved for this work.

Necessary follow up steps: None

Questions? Please contact Crimson Service Desk at crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu or 509-335-4357.