RE: [fw-wiz] PIX Licensed Connections Limit
From: Noonan, Wesley (Wesley_Noonan@bmc.com)
Date: 04/17/03
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From: "Noonan, Wesley" <Wesley_Noonan@bmc.com> To: "'Alan R. Young'" <aryoung@veros.com>, firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:20:27 -0500
It is the software code, IIRC. It will change the activation key which
essentially tells the PIXOS to allow unlimited connections, similar to how
you enable 3DES support, etc. To my knowledge, that is all that changes. HTH
Wes Noonan, MCSE/CCNA/CCDA/NNCSS/Security+
Senior QA Rep.
BMC Software, Inc.
(713) 918-2412
wnoonan@bmc.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan R. Young [mailto:aryoung@veros.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 20:17
> To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
> Cc: Noonan, Wesley
> Subject: RE: [fw-wiz] PIX Licensed Connections Limit
>
> Wesley:
>
> I understand, I certainly want to be legal and all that, but the nature of
> my question is more regarding "what technically is necessary".
>
> When I buy a license, what changes, are they giving me a chip, a disk, or
> simply a different boot floppy, etc. ? am I going to have to open the box
> and change hardware, or is it simply a tftp update? Do I change some
> flash rom? Or is the license quantity simply a different CISCO os version
> that I boot up with?
>
> I do not understand what will change when I get more licenses.
>
> Alan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noonan, Wesley [mailto:Wesley_Noonan@bmc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 6:10 PM
> To: Alan R. Young; firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
> Subject: RE: [fw-wiz] PIX Licensed Connections Limit
>
> You need to purchase a license. Talk to your Cisco rep and he can hook you
> up. That's the legal answer at least...
>
> Thanks.
>
> Wes Noonan, MCSE/CCNA/CCDA/NNCSS/Security+
> Senior QA Rep.
> BMC Software, Inc.
> (713) 918-2412
> wnoonan@bmc.com
> http://www.bmc.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan R. Young [mailto:aryoung@veros.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 19:28
> > To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
> > Subject: [fw-wiz] PIX Licensed Connections Limit
> >
> > 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
> > Copyright (c) 1996-1999 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
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