I opened up a PIX 520 firewall we had laying around our company and it appears to be a regular old Intel Pentium II box. One DIMM of RAM, two PCI cards (Firmware/boot and Intel Ethernet) and a single ISA card for the serial/console access.
I had a question about..... upgrading it. If I were to remove all three of the pertinent cards and put them in a more powerful Intel P3 or P4 PC, would it work?
-Bob
In article , Bob wrote: :I opened up a PIX 520 firewall we had laying around our company and it :appears to be a regular old Intel Pentium II box.
:I had a question about..... upgrading it. If I were to remove all :three of the pertinent cards and put them in a more powerful Intel P3 :or P4 PC, would it work?
Probably not, but you should google for 'frankenpix' to see what others have been able to achieve. Upgrades -are- generally possible, but there are limits.
Thanks.
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You can only upgrade the memory and the processor. And only to a slot 1 CPU. It will not work with any other hardware than the board in the PIX 520. Wich is a standard Intel motherboard.
You can upgrade the flashcard to a 16MB model. This card can handle PIX IOS up to version 6.3.4.
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