pix 515 w/ identical mac adress? wt...

qplayed

Hi guys i'm about to pick up sme pix 515's but
Hardware: PIX-515, 64 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 200 MHz
Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300, 16MB
BIOS Flash AT29C257 @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB

0: ethernet0: address is 0003.6bf6.8172, irq 11
1: ethernet1: address is 0003.6bf6.8173, irq 10
2: ethernet2: address is 0002.b35d.98bc, irq 7

Licensed Features:
Failover: Enabled
VPN-DES: Enabled
VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled
Maximum Physical Interfaces: 6
Maximum Interfaces: 10
Cut-through Proxy: Enabled
Guards: Enabled
URL-filtering: Enabled
Inside Hosts: Unlimited
Throughput: Unlimited
IKE peers: Unlimited

This PIX has a Failover Only (FO) license.


Hardware: PIX-515, 64 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 200 MHz
Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300, 16MB
BIOS Flash AT29C257 @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB

0: ethernet0: address is 0003.6bf6.8172, irq 11
1: ethernet1: address is 0003.6bf6.8173, irq 10
2: ethernet2: address is 0002.b35d.98bc, irq 7

Licensed Features:
Failover: Enabled
VPN-DES: Enabled
VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled
Maximum Physical Interfaces: 6
Maximum Interfaces: 10
Cut-through Proxy: Enabled
Guards: Enabled
URL-filtering: Enabled
Inside Hosts: Unlimited
Throughput: Unlimited
IKE peers: Unlimited

This PIX has an Unrestricted (UR) license.

is this possible for both pix to have the same hw addresses?
smells fishy, also the serial and act key are teh only things that are diff from the
show ver output

mikej412

qplayed wrote:

is this possible for both pix to have the same hw addresses?

If they are a configured failover pair -- then yes, it's possible.

If they are 2 separate auctions by 2 separate sellers, then one is probably running a scam

Hey, I don't see contexts in the license -- are these 7.x or greater? Or 6.x or lower?

qplayed

ahhhaha ok then this looks good I wasn't aware of that thanks mike! btw is this good enough for the lab ? I'm getting a wicked deal on these

mikej412

qplayed wrote:

is this good enough for the lab ? I'm getting a wicked deal on these

My last edit beat your last post.... but in case you didn't see what I just added...

mikej412 wrote:

Hey, I don't see contexts in the license -- are these 7.x or greater? Or 6.x or lower?

qplayed

they are 6.3(3)...If i upgrade thee with 7.x code will i have any problems ?

mikej412

qplayed wrote:

they are 6.3(3)...If i upgrade thee with 7.x code will i have any problems ?

I think you need to get a new activation key on the Cisco Website when you upgrade the sofware, otherwise you wind up with an upgraded pair of restricted software PIXs.

qplayed

what's that going to cost

qplayed

mike,

once these have been upgraded....will they be ok for lab work since they are a FO pair?

mikej412

I've heard different things...... and I get paid way to much to know how to do it. I just say "upgrade the PIXs" and wave my hand (or send an email) and it just seems to happen -- but I'm positive there's more to it than that, since there's usually a time lag between my declaration and the PIXs being upgraded.

I have made it to the Activation Key upgrade page with my Guest Level Cisco ID.... but I didn't have anything to upgrade to try it out.

They'll be great for a lab -- if you figure out the upgrade process (or someone else with actual experience chimes in) and you wind up with a pair of Unrestricted 7.x or 8.x PIXs with Failover capability (or the Unrestricted/FO Pair).