topic Re: Pix 515E Upgrade Software in Network Security

Pix 515E Upgrade Software

tmiller — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:08:05 GMT

Could someone point me in the right direction to upgrade the pix 515E to latest OS version.

I have been looking in all the wrong places.

Also, is there any issues with the VPN software on desktops that will occur when an upgrade is done? Or is it able to work with the older versions of the VPN software?

Thanks,

Tim

Re: Pix 515E Upgrade Software

cpembleton — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:46:07 GMT

What version are you currently running?

Thanks,

Chad

Re: Pix 515E Upgrade Software

tmiller — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:53:36 GMT

Firewall 6.3(4)

Device manager 3.0(2)

Also how do you tell if you have Restricted and non-restricted memory, is it the part about unrestriced license? Cause I will have to do a upgrade on memory.

Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(4)

Cisco PIX Device Manager Version 3.0(2)

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Compiled on Fri 02-Jul-04 00:07 by morlee

Pix up 20 days 22 hours

Hardware: PIX-515E, 32 MB RAM, CPU Pentium II 433 MHz

Flash E28F128J3 @ 0x300, 16MB

BIOS Flash AM29F400B @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB

Licensed Features:

Failover: Enabled

VPN-DES: Enabled

VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled

Maximum Physical Interfaces: 6

Maximum Interfaces: 10

Cut-through Proxy: Enabled

Guards: Enabled

URL-filtering: Enabled

Inside Hosts: Unlimited

Throughput: Unlimited

IKE peers: Unlimited

This PIX has an Unrestricted (UR) license.

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Re: Pix 515E Upgrade Software

cpembleton — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:59:03 GMT

Unrestricted includes the memory. You will need to do a memory upgrade to run 7.x.

Upgrade document:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a00804708d8.shtml

Re: Pix 515E Upgrade Software

tmiller — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:45:15 GMT

Thanks for the information.

Is there any effects to the existing VPN clients that are currently setup on the PIX? I have several 501 pix's and laptops with VPN client installed on them.

Do I have to upgrade the VPN clients?

Is there any other issues that are know or to watch out for.

Thanks in advanced

Re: Pix 515E Upgrade Software

cpembleton — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:48:45 GMT

Existing VPN clients will not have a problem connecting. The upgrade will take the existing vpn config.

501's don't support 7.x anyways.