Maximum Gig interfaces in PIX 535?

[haithamnofal]

Hi All,

Any idea on the maximum number of Gig interfaces in PIX 535? I have a PIX 535 with VAC+ card; it came with 3 built-in gig interfaces, I ordered 2 additional 1-GE cards but I can't find any place to place them in the appliance since the size of the interface modules is bigger than the available empty slots in the PIX!! Any idea?

Thanks,

Haitham

[dominic.caron]

Hi,

Here's the info you want:

The pix as 3 bus, 2 66 Mhz bus and 1 33 Mhz bus.

Each 66 Mhz bus as two slot : total = 4

The 33 Mhz bus as five slot.

Your VAC+ card and your 3 GE card on your pix must be using all 4 66 Mhz slot. If you want to have another card, you must use a(33Mhz) PIX-1GE, not the PIX-1GE-66.

Here's a link to the pix interface

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_field_notice09186a00800940f4.shtml

[Fernando_Meza]

hi .. please see below.

The Cisco PIX 535 Firewall is the ultimate enterprise firewall designed for enterprise

networks and service providers. The PIX 535 is rack-mountable and fits a 3U configuration.

It has a 1-GHz processor, up to 1 GB of RAM, and 16 MB of Flash memory. It has nine PCI

slots for the installation of up to ten Ethernet interfaces.

The PIX 535 can also be configured with a VAC or VAC+. The VAC and VAC+ handle much

of the VPN traffic processing (encryption and decryption), thus improving the firewall’s

performance. The VAC and VAC+ are recommended for firewalls that connect multiple hightraffic

VPNs.

I hope it helps ... please rate if it if does !!!