Cisco Systems Throughput: Limited on Pix 506

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Throughput: Limited on Pix 506 Christophe Pin 07-30-08
Posted by Christophe Pin on July 30, 2008, 3:53 am
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Hello all,

I don't know if this is the good place for this question. If not, please
tell where to post.

I actually own a Pix 506E. I want to buy another one in case of crash of the
first one. The idea is to save the config of the fisrt one and if there is a
crash, I replace it with de second one where I restore config.

I saw on an online store a Pix 506 (not E). In the product description,
there is copy/past of the 'show ver' command. I used it to compare to mine.

On my Pix, I can read Throughput: unlimited but on the store's one, I can
read Throughput: Limited.

I can't understand what is limited and if this limitation will make not
possible what I project to do (replace one by the second with config
restore)

Hre is the complete show ver on my actual Pix:
Result of firewall command: "show version"

Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(4)
Cisco PIX Device Manager Version 3.0(2)
Compiled on Fri 02-Jul-04 00:07 by morlee
pix.centralweb up 91 days 1 hour
Hardware: PIX-506E, 32 MB RAM, CPU Pentium II 300 MHz
Flash E28F640J3 @ 0x300, 8MB
BIOS Flash AM29F400B @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB
0: ethernet0: address is 0014.1cd2.2516, irq 10
1: ethernet1: address is 0014.1cd2.2517, irq 11
Licensed Features:
Failover: Disabled
VPN-DES: Enabled
VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled
Maximum Physical Interfaces: 2
Maximum Interfaces: 2
Cut-through Proxy: Enabled
Guards: Enabled
URL-filtering: Enabled
Inside Hosts: Unlimited
Throughput: Unlimited
IKE peers: Unlimited
This PIX has a Restricted (R) license.

Here is the result of the show ver on the one I plan to buy:
Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(5)
Cisco PIX Device Manager Version 3.0(4)

Compiled on Fri 02-Jul-04 00:07 by morlee

pixfirewall up 5 mins 50 secs

Hardware: PIX-506, 32 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 200 MHz
Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300, 8MB
BIOS Flash AT29C257 @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB

0: ethernet0: address is 0050.54ff.be5b, irq 11
1: ethernet1: address is 0050.54ff.be5c, irq 10
Licensed Features:
Failover: Disabled
VPN-DES: Enabled
VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled
Maximum Physical Interfaces: 2
Maximum Interfaces: 2
Cut-through Proxy: Enabled
Guards: Enabled
URL-filtering: Enabled
Inside Hosts: Unlimited
Throughput: Limited
IKE peers: Unlimited

This PIX has a Restricted (R) license.



Thank you a lot for your help

Chris





Posted by Jyri Korhonen on July 30, 2008, 8:24 am
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> I actually own a Pix 506E. I want to buy another one in case of crash of the
> first one. The idea is to save the config of the fisrt one and if there is a
> crash, I replace it with de second one where I restore config.
>
> I saw on an online store a Pix 506 (not E). In the product description,
> there is copy/past of the 'show ver' command. I used it to compare to mine.
>
> On my Pix, I can read Throughput: unlimited but on the store's one, I can
> read Throughput: Limited.

Well,

OS version 6.3(4) always says "Unlimited" and OS version 6.3(5) says
"Limited", but there is no difference in operation.

However there is something wrong with the listing from the non-E 506.
Maximum interfaces with OS 6.3(5) should be 4, not 2 because you can
define virtual interfaces.

Here's a listing from one of our non-E 506's.

Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(5)
Cisco PIX Device Manager Version 3.0(4)

Compiled on Thu 04-Aug-05 21:40 by morlee

Pixfirewall up 62 days 7 hours

Hardware: PIX-506, 32 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 200 MHz
Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300, 8MB
BIOS Flash AT29C257 @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB

0: ethernet0: address is 0006.532b.f892, irq 11
1: ethernet1: address is 0006.532b.f893, irq 10
Licensed Features:
Failover: Disabled
VPN-DES: Enabled
VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled
Maximum Physical Interfaces: 2
Maximum Interfaces: 4
Cut-through Proxy: Enabled
Guards: Enabled
URL-filtering: Enabled
Inside Hosts: Unlimited
Throughput: Limited
IKE peers: Unlimited

This PIX has a Restricted (R) license.


Posted by Christophe Pin on July 30, 2008, 8:33 am
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>
>> I actually own a Pix 506E. I want to buy another one in case of crash of
>> the
>> first one. The idea is to save the config of the fisrt one and if there
>> is a
>> crash, I replace it with de second one where I restore config.
>>
>> I saw on an online store a Pix 506 (not E). In the product description,
>> there is copy/past of the 'show ver' command. I used it to compare to
>> mine.
>>
>> On my Pix, I can read Throughput: unlimited but on the store's one, I can
>> read Throughput: Limited.
>
> Well,
>
> OS version 6.3(4) always says "Unlimited" and OS version 6.3(5) says
> "Limited", but there is no difference in operation.
>
> However there is something wrong with the listing from the non-E 506.
> Maximum interfaces with OS 6.3(5) should be 4, not 2 because you can
> define virtual interfaces.
>
> Here's a listing from one of our non-E 506's.
>
> Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(5)
> Cisco PIX Device Manager Version 3.0(4)
>
> Compiled on Thu 04-Aug-05 21:40 by morlee
>
> Pixfirewall up 62 days 7 hours
>
> Hardware: PIX-506, 32 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 200 MHz
> Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300, 8MB
> BIOS Flash AT29C257 @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB
>
> 0: ethernet0: address is 0006.532b.f892, irq 11
> 1: ethernet1: address is 0006.532b.f893, irq 10
> Licensed Features:
> Failover: Disabled
> VPN-DES: Enabled
> VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled
> Maximum Physical Interfaces: 2
> Maximum Interfaces: 4
> Cut-through Proxy: Enabled
> Guards: Enabled
> URL-filtering: Enabled
> Inside Hosts: Unlimited
> Throughput: Limited
> IKE peers: Unlimited
>
> This PIX has a Restricted (R) license.
>

I copied/paste the non E listing from the website where I plan to buy it.
What doest it mean ? Is there a problem with this device ?

Thanks



Posted by Christophe Pin on August 1, 2008, 5:51 am
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>>
>>> I actually own a Pix 506E. I want to buy another one in case of crash of
>>> the
>>> first one. The idea is to save the config of the fisrt one and if there
>>> is a
>>> crash, I replace it with de second one where I restore config.
>>>
>>> I saw on an online store a Pix 506 (not E). In the product description,
>>> there is copy/past of the 'show ver' command. I used it to compare to
>>> mine.
>>>
>>> On my Pix, I can read Throughput: unlimited but on the store's one, I
>>> can
>>> read Throughput: Limited.
>>
>> Well,
>>
>> OS version 6.3(4) always says "Unlimited" and OS version 6.3(5) says
>> "Limited", but there is no difference in operation.
>>
>> However there is something wrong with the listing from the non-E 506.
>> Maximum interfaces with OS 6.3(5) should be 4, not 2 because you can
>> define virtual interfaces.
>>
>> Here's a listing from one of our non-E 506's.
>>
>> Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(5)
>> Cisco PIX Device Manager Version 3.0(4)
>>
>> Compiled on Thu 04-Aug-05 21:40 by morlee
>>
>> Pixfirewall up 62 days 7 hours
>>
>> Hardware: PIX-506, 32 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 200 MHz
>> Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300, 8MB
>> BIOS Flash AT29C257 @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB
>>
>> 0: ethernet0: address is 0006.532b.f892, irq 11
>> 1: ethernet1: address is 0006.532b.f893, irq 10
>> Licensed Features:
>> Failover: Disabled
>> VPN-DES: Enabled
>> VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled
>> Maximum Physical Interfaces: 2
>> Maximum Interfaces: 4
>> Cut-through Proxy: Enabled
>> Guards: Enabled
>> URL-filtering: Enabled
>> Inside Hosts: Unlimited
>> Throughput: Limited
>> IKE peers: Unlimited
>>
>> This PIX has a Restricted (R) license.
>>
>
> I copied/paste the non E listing from the website where I plan to buy it.
> What doest it mean ? Is there a problem with this device ?
>
> Thanks
>No more answer ? :(



Posted by Christophe Pin on August 5, 2008, 9:35 am
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I"m sorry for asking again but I am affraid to buy a Pix with a problem.

Does the wrong number of virtual interface mean I should not buy it ?

Thanks



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> 48905f9f$0$839$426a74cc@news.free.fr...
>>>
>>>> I actually own a Pix 506E. I want to buy another one in case of crash
>>>> of the
>>>> first one. The idea is to save the config of the fisrt one and if there
>>>> is a
>>>> crash, I replace it with de second one where I restore config.
>>>>
>>>> I saw on an online store a Pix 506 (not E). In the product description,
>>>> there is copy/past of the 'show ver' command. I used it to compare to
>>>> mine.
>>>>
>>>> On my Pix, I can read Throughput: unlimited but on the store's one, I
>>>> can
>>>> read Throughput: Limited.
>>>
>>> Well,
>>>
>>> OS version 6.3(4) always says "Unlimited" and OS version 6.3(5) says
>>> "Limited", but there is no difference in operation.
>>>
>>> However there is something wrong with the listing from the non-E 506.
>>> Maximum interfaces with OS 6.3(5) should be 4, not 2 because you can
>>> define virtual interfaces.
>>>
>>> Here's a listing from one of our non-E 506's.
>>>
>>> Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(5)
>>> Cisco PIX Device Manager Version 3.0(4)
>>>
>>> Compiled on Thu 04-Aug-05 21:40 by morlee
>>>
>>> Pixfirewall up 62 days 7 hours
>>>
>>> Hardware: PIX-506, 32 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 200 MHz
>>> Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300, 8MB
>>> BIOS Flash AT29C257 @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB
>>>
>>> 0: ethernet0: address is 0006.532b.f892, irq 11
>>> 1: ethernet1: address is 0006.532b.f893, irq 10
>>> Licensed Features:
>>> Failover: Disabled
>>> VPN-DES: Enabled
>>> VPN-3DES-AES: Enabled
>>> Maximum Physical Interfaces: 2
>>> Maximum Interfaces: 4
>>> Cut-through Proxy: Enabled
>>> Guards: Enabled
>>> URL-filtering: Enabled
>>> Inside Hosts: Unlimited
>>> Throughput: Limited
>>> IKE peers: Unlimited
>>>
>>> This PIX has a Restricted (R) license.
>>>
>>
>> I copied/paste the non E listing from the website where I plan to buy it.
>> What doest it mean ? Is there a problem with this device ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>No more answer ? :(
>
>



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