Cisco Systems PIX 515 upgrade troubles

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PIX 515 upgrade troubles Christian 05-05-08
Posted by Christian on May 5, 2008, 10:48 am
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Hi All,

I bought a 2nd hand PIX 515 with password enabled. The password reset
procedure
from Cisco did not work. Because, after tftp'ing the 635.bin, the PIX did
not ask for
password reset, but asked for the activation key. Happily I wrote this down
from the
sh ver, so i typed it in, but see, still the [unknown] password !
So, i tried to upgrade the the PIX with 724.bin, what looked good... but:
the bin file is
copied to RAM and not to flash. Wit this of course the PIX cannot boot.
Cisco has a
cure, but only from the enable prompt...because I do not have the password ,
that is
not possible for me...
Please, I hope that anybody can help me out, beacuse I am in BIG trouble
now..

Thanks a lot !! Chris



Posted by Morph on May 5, 2008, 11:42 am
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wrote:

| Hi All,
|
| I bought a 2nd hand PIX 515 with password enabled. The password reset
| procedure
| from Cisco did not work. Because, after tftp'ing the 635.bin, the PIX did
| not ask for
| password reset, but asked for the activation key. Happily I wrote this down
| from the
| sh ver, so i typed it in, but see, still the [unknown] password !
| So, i tried to upgrade the the PIX with 724.bin, what looked good... but:
| the bin file is
| copied to RAM and not to flash. Wit this of course the PIX cannot boot.
| Cisco has a
| cure, but only from the enable prompt...because I do not have the password ,
| that is
| not possible for me...
| Please, I hope that anybody can help me out, beacuse I am in BIG trouble
| now..

Did you follow this procedure?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_password_recovery09186a008009478b.shtml

Posted by Morph on May 5, 2008, 11:49 am
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| | Hi All,
| |
| | I bought a 2nd hand PIX 515 with password enabled. The password reset
| | procedure
| | from Cisco did not work. Because, after tftp'ing the 635.bin, the PIX did
| | not ask for
| | password reset, but asked for the activation key. Happily I wrote this down
| | from the
| | sh ver, so i typed it in, but see, still the [unknown] password !
| | So, i tried to upgrade the the PIX with 724.bin, what looked good... but:
| | the bin file is
| | copied to RAM and not to flash. Wit this of course the PIX cannot boot.
| | Cisco has a
| | cure, but only from the enable prompt...because I do not have the password ,
| | that is
| | not possible for me...
| | Please, I hope that anybody can help me out, beacuse I am in BIG trouble
| | now..
|
| Did you follow this procedure?
|
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_password_recovery09186a008009478b.shtml

As you can see from this procedure you should tftp PIX Password Lockout
Utility and not PIX firewall software.
np70.bin (7.x and 8.0 release)
np63.bin (6.3 release)

Posted by Chris on May 5, 2008, 2:18 pm
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> |
> | Did you follow this procedure?
> |
>
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_password_recovery09186a008009478b.shtml
>
> As you can see from this procedure you should tftp PIX Password Lockout
> Utility and not PIX firewall software.
> np70.bin (7.x and 8.0 release)
> np63.bin (6.3 release)

Hi Morph,

I overlooked the np70.bin part, i started rightaway with the 724.bin file...
Thanks, now it's working !
Many thanks again !




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