RE: PIX Licensed Connections Limit

["Alan R. Young" <aryoung () veros com>]

Hi

Now I am completely stumped!! CISCO has thrown me for a loop.

I just called CISCO customer support and they told me that they will not
sell me anything until I can get my box inspected and licensed and I
must buy a smartnet contract.

They told me it would be around $3000, that is going to cost me about
three times the price of the box. They really do go for the throat.

Then I asked for a product number so I could call back once I had the
money to pay for the CD, and upon inquiring further the CISCO guy on the
line told me that no, upon further checking they cannot sell me
anything, the software is now discontinued !!, NO SUPPORT AVAILABLE FOR
MY PIX 520!!! The phrase the guy used was "it is at END OF LIFE STATUS".

Am I totally screwed? Is there a third party source that sells the
upgrade license software?

I am completely stunned... Did I buy a useless paperweight?

Any suggestions guys?

Alan



-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Rinker [mailto:firewall () dsrtech com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 6:19 PM
To: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] PIX Licensed Connections Limit


Alan,

On the firewall you purchased version 4.4(5), you will need to do the
following steps after purchasing the license code upgrade from Cisco.


http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/prod_installation_
guide09186a00800f2561.html#32095


You might want to purchase a newer code version with the licenses as you
are responsible for purchasing the software when you buy hardware from a
venue like Ebay.

Thanks,
Dave



On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 20:27, Alan R. Young wrote:
> Hey All
>  
> I just bought a PIX 520 on ebay.
>  
> My question is, how can the licensed connections number be changed?
>  
> Is that a flash rom setting, or what?
>  
> What do I do to change it to unlimited connections?
>  
> Thanks
> Alan Young
> aryoung () veros com
>  
>  
> Cisco PIX 520 Firewall PII 350 MHz 
> Model: PIX-520 Rev C0 
> 128 MB Ram 
> Two Ethernet Cards 10/100 
> Floppy Disk Drive 
> PIX Version 4.4(5) 
> Bios v3.3 
> Licensed Connections: 1024 
> This is captured file: 
> Finesse Bios V3.3 
> Booting Floppy 
> Loading from Flash 
> 128MB RAM 
> Flash=AT29C040A @ 0x300 
> mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 11  MAC: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 10  MAC: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>                                ||        || 
>                                ||        || 
>                               ||||      |||| 
>                           ..:||||||:..:||||||:.. 
>                          c i s c o S y s t e m s 
>                         Private Internet eXchange 
----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>                                PIX Firewall 
>   
> PIX Version 4.4(5) 
> Licensed Connections: 1024 
> Maximum Interfaces :  6 
> Global ()will be Port Address Translated 
> Cryptochecksum(unchanged): c60b7852 a9d77cf1 1994b34c 2d9290aa 
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