restricted/unrestricted license in PIX 6.1

You might want to issue the

reload command

and then execute the

show version command

once more.

Hope this helps.

Brad Reese Cisco Repair

It tells you max interfaces are 3, right off the bat that means 515R. You have enough flash (16M) but you need to upgrade the DRAM. Minimum is 64 for the R model to run v7, you have 32M.

-Brian

Brian V schrieb:

cool, thanks a lot do i need cisco DRAM or any with the right specs?

btw: what costs are involved as far as software? let's just say the customer has the 702.bin file, is there any license fees to be paid to cisco? and what about the activation key? is that lost after the upgrade?

thanks, S

Yes. The actual transfer of the file is, in a way, the least important part of the upgrade process.

To go from PIX 6.x to 7.x, you either need a support contract on the box, or you need to buy a one-time upgrade.

For most people, the support contract is economically much more efficient, in that you get the service as well as the upgrade for a price that is not much more than the one-time upgrade cost. There are, though, organizations which have strict policies that do not allow support contracts; and there are organizations where support is "operations" and one-time upgrades would be "capital" and those might be different budgets (possibly controlled by completely different departments); and there are organizations where the -relatively- small price difference between the two cases is too large to be funded (e.g. for cash flow reasons... or due to short-sighted management. After all, you can read the documentation, right? So why would you need a support contract?)

On the other hand, your PIX 6.1 software is sufficiently old that Cisco might tell you that you must purchase the 7.0 upgrade before they will consider you for support.

Please note that some of the features you might want to use in 7.0 require obtaining additional feature-keys; these are in addition to "Restricted" vs "Unrestricted".

I suggest you scan through the upgrade guide, Also, that document indicates that you must be at least at 6.2 before the 7.0 upgrade. If I recall correctly, a few weeks ago, someone reported success on taking a PIX 4 system to 7.0 (with a few glitches along the way.)

let me be devils advocate here:

again, what happens, if I just install the new image without buying the upgrade or support contract? will the pix "phone home" magically and quit working?

so it seems you recomend a support contract?

wow, the customer has to be worthy to give cisco money?

thanks, S

No, the image would work, but as far as Cisco is concerned, you would have used the software without permission. If you are in the USA, then if I recall correctly, the selling cost of the PIX image (even after the maximum Cisco discount) exceeds the bounds set out in the US Federal Copyright Act, and as such using the image without permission would be a felony (not just a civil contract violation.)

Don't be like that. I am volunteering my time and skills here, and if you are going to get snarky about my phrasing, then I'm sure I could go away and find something else to do.

Cisco prices support contracts based upon assumptions about *limited* loss of sales of upgrade contracts, with the presumption that if you have relatively recent software then you either bought the device recently or else have been paying support recently. You, with your

6.1 software version, seem unlikely to have been paying support recently, since 6.1 was released more than 4 years ago. Cisco is not infinitely generous with its support contracts, especially since you can buy a support contract for even as little as 10 days.

I have dealt with a number of software companies whose support policy is that if you have allowed your support to lapse, then in order to obtain support or upgrades, you must either buy the software again or else pay all "back support" -- pay all the years you missed. Even then it wasn't uncommon for there to be a time limit such as 2 or 4 years beyond which they would not accept the back-support option.

Walter Roberson schrieb:

ok, I think i got it, thanks again.

ps:I just seem to have gotten the task to support all our pix customers (who _all_ seem to have old pixen, expired support etc) therefore i need to know how to convince them to spend some money on a (no doubt) great product.

cheers, S