pix monitor mode help

scott.hammond · ‎08-10-2011

trying to upgrade an old pix as a migration for getting some asa's installed.

it doesnt have enough flash to do the upgrade straight up so I have to do it from monitor mode, trouble is I cant get it into monitor mode.

I have read at least 20 threads about how you press escape and how it even says "press escape" during the boot process but this one must be older and doesnt have that option.

tried every hyperterm/secure crt break sequence I can think of and there is no joy. Anybody have any suggestions?

webhost# reload

Proceed with reload? [confirm]

Rebooting....

Cisco Secure PIX Firewall BIOS (3.6)

Booting Floppy

Flash=i28F640J5 @ 0x300

Reading 1937920 bytes of image from flash.

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128MB RAM

mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 11 MAC: 00d0.b792.5897

mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 10 MAC: 00d0.b792.5695

mcwa i82558 Ethernet at irq 9 MAC: 00e0.b601.86de

mcwa i82558 Ethernet at irq 9 MAC: 00e0.b601.86dd

mcwa i82558 Ethernet at irq 11 MAC: 00e0.b601.86dc

mcwa i82558 Ethernet at irq 10 MAC: 00e0.b601.86db

Flash=i28F640J5 @ 0x300

BIOS Flash=AT29C257 @ 0xfffd8000

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..:||||||:..:||||||:..

c i s c o S y s t e m s

Private Internet eXchange

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Cisco PIX Firewall

Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(3)

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Maximum Physical Interfaces: 6

Maximum Interfaces: 12

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URL-filtering: Enabled

Inside Hosts: Unlimited

Throughput: Unlimited

IKE peers: Unlimited

This PIX has an Unrestricted (UR) license.

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....................................web-dmz interface address added to PAT pool

OutsideTWT interface address added to PAT pool

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Cryptochecksum(unchanged): 4af061fe 79f14d45 53777955 2d769494

Type help or '?' for a list of available commands.

webhost>

Parminder Sian · ‎08-23-2011

Hi Scott,

Try this:-

Appliances without a Floppy Drive (Monitor Mode)

PIX devices that do not have an internal floppy drive come with a ROM boot monitor program that is used for the upgrade of the PIX Firewall image. Complete these steps in order to enter monitor mode on devices without a floppy drive:

Power cycle or reload the PIX. During bootup, you are prompted to use BREAK or ESC to interrupt Flash boot. You have ten seconds to interrupt the normal boot process.
Press the ESC key or send a BREAK character in order to enter monitor mode.
- If you use Windows HyperTerminal, you can press the ESC key or send a BREAK character by with the Ctrl+Break keystroke.
- If you Telnet through a terminal server in order to access the console port of the PIX, you must press Ctrl ] in order to get to the Telnet command prompt. Then enter the send break command.
The monitor> prompt displays.
Proceed to the Upgrade the PIX Firewall from Boothelper or Monitor Mode section of this document.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a0080094a5d.shtml#

Hope this helps,

Sian