06-02-2006 12:56 PM - edited 02-21-2020 12:56 AM
Quick silly question. We just purchase an FO cisco pix 515e that we want to deploy, and reading the requirments it says the boxes need to be in synch with software version. Our current firewall is running pix 7.0(5) and the new FO box is runnign pix 6.3(5). I have tried the standard upgrade, but the default config does not allow it to talk to anything on the inside interface (stock factory config of 192.168.1.0/24). Is there any way i can upgrade this box to the appropiate software version without physical access to the primary (it is in NJ, and I am in MA). Any help would be greatly appreciated..
06-06-2006 07:45 AM
We just upgraded a Pix 515e from 6.3 to 7.2.1. This upgrade must be performed in monitor mode on a 515e that is loaded with the standard PDM and 6.3 image.
If you need to do it remotely, you will have to get to a laptop connected to the monitor port and be able to issue the ctrl-break or Esc command to boot it into monitor mode to upgrade it.
06-06-2006 09:19 AM
I was able to get it to upgrade via monitor mode, but the upgrade docs says you then need to copy via tftp to the flash before the next reboot or the box will get caught in a reboot loop upon next reload. So are you saying the proper steps are
1 - flash via monitor
2 - connect via pigtail to primary pix
3 - then tftp the config
06-18-2006 06:50 PM
Well I finally got this problem solve, I am an inditiot for not thinking about this before. I just needed to type "failover active" to force the boxes into active mode and then it worked just fine.
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