Throughput: Limited on Pix 506

Jul 30, 2008 4 Replies

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


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

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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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