I am configuring a PIX 501 device. What I've done many times on many other PIXes is creating an IP pool in order to assign a range of addresses for clients connecting via VPN. My usual procedure using the PDM was:
1) Create a pool named VPNPool with an address of
192.168.40.248-192.168.40.251
2) Create a policy to allow traffic from the inside network
192.168.40.0/24 to the outside 192.168.40.248/30
3) Configuring the Cisco VPN Client tab
Here comes the trouble: On all other times I configured a pix the name of the pool appeared on the host/networks and it was not modifiable. Now, instead, as soon as I create the policy I'm asked to create a name (with requests to route it) and as soon as I apply the policy the IP pool I created disappears from the IP pool window under VPN. The PDM has a warning stating that the pdm does not understand the command ip local pool VPNPool VPNPool-192.168.40.251
What is going wrong? I've done this dozens of times on 515E and 506E models. Is it a problem of the 501? I've read somewhere that there's a problem when the address pool overlaps the inside network range, but I never had a problem using this method on all other configuration. Thanks for your help