Setup of VAC+ on PIX 515E?

[astroman]

Hello-->

I have a PIX 515E with a VAC+ card installed. Any recommendations, or links that I can look at for setting this up to get VPN up and running? I thought that there is a GUI to use, for the VPN setup?

Also, does anyone suggest the use of the PIX Device Manager?

Any help is appreciated....

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astroman

[gfullage]

PDM (the GUI you've heard about) has a VPN Wizard that'll walk you through configuring the VPN. You don't need to do anything specific with the VAC+, the fact that it's installed will mean any encryption done by the PIX will be off-loaded to it.

Install instructions are here:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/pix/pix_61/pdm_ig/pdm_inst.htm

The rest is provided by the on-line help within the app itself. Have fun!

[astroman]

Thanks for your help....

Another question, I'm running PIX 6.1(4) w/ PDM v. 1.1(2). I would like to upgrade PDM to the most current version, I think it's at v. 3? Does anyone know what PIX version I need to be at in order to install v. 3?

Thanks in advance...

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astroman

[jeff.christensen]

Version 3.0(1) of the PDM requires you to have at least version 6.3(x) of the PIX software.

Jeff

[r-lemaster]

Is that VAC hardware based? ASIC?

I haven't seen any reviews of the PIX with the VAC. Does it make a big difference? How much do those things cost?