Failover licensing

[alanjwells]

Need advice on PIX licensing.

I would like to implement failover mode for my PIX 515E firewall that has a 4 port FE card. Currently using 4 of the six interfaces so the PIX is running an unrestricted license.

I have another PIX 515E I can use, I just need to buy a 4 port FE card for it so the hardware will be matched. Problem is it only has a restricted license. I have a quote to purchase the failover feature license, do I also need to upgrade to an Unrestricted license (could be costly).

I suppose my question is does the failover feature license support more than three interafaces?

[sachinraja]

Hello alan,

you cannot do failover with a restricted license in 515 E.. you must get a unrestricted one.. no other go..

you also cannot put a 4 port ethernet card on 515 E with restricted license.. the max number of interfaces on a restricted platform is 3...

you can just order for an upgrade from a restricted to a unrestricted license..

PIX-515-SW-R-UR=

PIX 515/515E Restricted to unrestricted software license upgrade. Includes PIX-515-MEM-32 to upgrade base chassis from 32 Mbytes to 64 Mbytes.

Hope this helps !!

[alanjwells]

Do I also need to purchase the PIX-515-SW-FO (failover feature license) as well?

[thisisshanky]

Either you have to get both UR bundles on your PIXes or you can get one with UR and other with FO bundle. The UR-FO might be cheaper than the UR-UR bundle.

Hope that helps!