topic Re: Bad magic number when upgrading to pdm-304 in Network Security

Bad magic number when upgrading to pdm-304

ian — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:38:20 GMT

I am trying to upgrde pdm from 3(1) to 3(4), when I use tftp and try toinstall pdm-304.bin it appears tostart up and load but always ends with the following message:

Received 3152452 bytes

Bad magic number (0x6f6c636e)

I have tried re-downloading it (seval times) trying both http and passive mode ftp. In windows explorer the file size shows as 3079 so it appears that there is a difference in the numer transmitted. I have tried three different tftp servers and the results have been the same. I did already upgrade the os from 6.3(1) to 6.3(5) using the same procedure.

Anyone have any ideas?

Re: Bad magic number when upgrading to pdm-304

ROBERTO TACCON — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:36:49 GMT

When you have downloaded the file from cisco have you verified the MD5 ?

Release 3.0.4

Description Cisco PIX Device Manager for PIX 6.3

Size 3152452

Router Checksum 0xba14

MD5 c870b7626bef739f219f4f9a1fa47b53

Date Published: 12-AUG-2005

Re: Bad magic number when upgrading to pdm-304

rajbhatt — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:31:30 GMT

Hi,

I have faced the same issue.

Are you trying this for the secondary pix ?

Are you doing this from the moniter mode or config mode ?I tried to do it from the moniter mode as my tftp server would not ping . Mine was a corrupted flash .

Raj

Re: Bad magic number when upgrading to pdm-304

ian — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:56:14 GMT

Yes the md5 checks out

Re: Bad magic number when upgrading to pdm-304

ian — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:00:03 GMT

I am doing it in monitor mode. What was the solution for a corrupt flash and how did you test to comeup with that diagnosis?

Ian

Re: Bad magic number when upgrading to pdm-304

johnrmcse — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:15:29 GMT

This is what worked for me.........

Cisco PIX Firewall Software Upgrade Procedure

1. Download the latest files for the PIX: Operating System Image and PIX Device Manager (PDM) Image.

2. Prepare a TFTP server, and confirm that the PIX can access it.

3. Log into the PIX Command Line Interface (CLI).

4. Enter enable mode.

PIX# configure terminal

5. Copy the updated operating system image from the TFTP server to the PIX.

PIX(config)# copy tftp flash

Address or name of remote host [0.0.0.0]? 172.17.10.1

Source file name [cdisk]? pix635.bin

copying tftp://172.17.10.1/pix635.bin to flash:image

[yes|no|again]? yes

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Received 2101248 bytes

Erasing current image

Writing 1978424 bytes of image

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Image installed

6. Copy the latest PDM image from the TFTP server to the PIX.

PIX(config)# copy tftp flash:pdm

Address or name of remote host [0.0.0.0]? 172.17.10.1

Source file name [cdisk]? pdm-304.bin

copying tftp://172.17.10.1/pdm-304.bin to flash:pdm

[yes|no|again]? yes

Erasing current PDM file

Writing new PDM file

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7. Reboot the PIX.

PIX(config)# reload

8. Type show version to verify that the upgrade succeeded.

PIX# show version

Cisco Secure PIX Firewall System 6.3(5)

PIX Device Manager Version 3.0(4)