PIX 515E Failover with VAC and VAC+

[mogli]

hy,

we are using a pix 515E including a standard VAC. to build a failover solution, we thought about buying a second pix with failover licence. this pix includes a VAC+ .

is it possible to combine a pix with a vac and a pix with a vac+ into a failover-scenario?? the other hardware (interfaces) are the same and the primary pix has an unrestricted licence.

thanks a lot for your help,

[bvanniekerk]

Hardware: Hardware platforms needs to be the same.

Licencing: If running an unrestricted licence, then failover should work with Failover licence.

HTH

[aboelhouwers]

That's not exactly true, because and I quote from the Cisco site "The PIX-4FE and PIX-4FE-66 cards are considered equivalent and interchangeable. You can install a PIX-4FE in the primary unit and a PIX-4FE-66 in the secondary unit, as long as you install them in the same slot number of each chassis. For example, if you install a PIX-4FE in Slot 1 of the primary unit, the PIX-4FE-66 must be installed in Slot 1 of the secondary unit."

For VAC and VAC+ I don't know. I hope Cisco can help you out.

Regards

Aad

[bvanniekerk]

Hi

Please keep in mind the architecture of the device and where the 66Mhz and 33MHz interfaces are...

Certain PIX's will not boot if card in wrong position...

[aboelhouwers]

I know, but I still haven't found anything about using a VAC and a VAC+ in a failover configuration

Regards

Aad

[bvanniekerk]

I think the same applies...may very well be mistaken...

Rgrds

Byron

[netstreams]

Hi!

Same problem here... Have you had an answer yet?

Regards

[mogli]

hi,

as far as i remeber, it works fine. we have no experience about the vpn acceleration (vac+ supports aes, vac 3des), because we don't use vpn access from outside. the firewall features work fine in case of a failover.

regards