PIX 501 obtaining an IP address

May 11, 2006 1 Replies

Hi,



I am a novice user trying to fix the firewall in my office. We use a PIX 501 firewall and have a T1 connxn. There are around 10-15 computers in the network. Its a windows network.



The problem is this:



We are unable to access the internet
>The ISP guy says he is able to see the MAC address of our router that is hooked

to the ISP line However he doesn't see an IP for it


So we're guessing the problem is with the firewall
  1. I see an interface called 'console' in the PIX box. I connected a laptop to the interface to try to see what could be done but I didn't quite manage to progress after this.

So I need help on what the problem could be, how to access the firewall to check its settings using SSH or telnet or my browser(I cant find any CDs that came with PIX, so using any Cisco app to connect is out of question) , and how to fix this?


Thank you, Madhu



see the Cisco doc

formatting link

If you ISP assign IP address using DHCP then:

connect to the console port using the blue cable provided.

config t enable ip address outside dhcp setroute exit write mem

remove and replace cable to ISP modem

show ip address outside dhcp

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