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PIX 506e VPN licenses

Hello all,

We've been having some issues with our VPN that is setup on our PIX

506e. 75% of the time, the VPN works wonders, but the other 25% of the time, people lose connection for no apparent reason. I have setup a Kiwi Syslog and gone over and over the logs, but find no issues.

But someone suggested I look to see if we have enough VPN licenses for the PIX. Maybe it's dropping connections if it goes over the max number of connections for the licenses.

I wasn't even aware you needed VPN licenses.

Is there way to figure this out?

Thanks!

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chrismtoth
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Hi Chris,

I couldn't remember what the details were on this so I looked it up on Cisco. The enclosed URL takes you to a PDF. This states that:

Cleartext throughput: 20 Mbps

56-bit DES IPsec VPN throughput: 20 Mbps 168-bit 3DES IPsec VPN throughput: 16 Mbps Simultaneous VPN peers: 25*

  • Maximum number of simultaneous site-to-site or remote access

VPN/IKE Security Associations (SAs) supported

The last bit is probably your limitiation. How may users do you have.

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Regards

Darren

Reply to
Darren Green

Thanks for the info...we have approximately 25 users who have access to the VPN, but maybe only 10-15 users who use it at any given time.

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chrismtoth

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