John,
What is a WatchGuard crash? Does it happen every 10 minutes interval?
There was an old thread somebody having a similar problem and it was a
Failover licensing issue.
Firewall licensing had changed from connection-based to feature-based from
earlier version. This means when you upgrade,
the license needs to be reactivated. Hope that helps.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/110/upgrade.shtml#upgrade511
At 11:23 PM 29/11/2004, Andrew Shore wrote:
John
Have you tried removing the secondary (ie eliminate the timing issue
between the pair)
I suggest rebooting the primary, with the ios 6.3(3) and turn off the
secondary. If the primary does not fail then after 10 mins upgrade the
secondary (with fail over cable removed) then re-setup the failover.
HTH
Andy
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From: jon-george.hughes@accenture.com
[mailto:jon-george.hughes@accenture.com]
Sent: 26 November 2004 09:33
To: firewalls@securityfocus.com
Subject: Cisco PIX WatchGuard crash
I've recently tried to upgrade a Cisco PIX 525 from v5.2(3) to v6.3(3) and
experienced a WatchGuard crash 10 minutes after the upgrade. I then tried
v6.3(1) and had the same result. When I tried v5.2(9) I had no issue and
left the system on this version.
I've been told that this WatchGuard crashing was probably caused by the
fact that when I upgraded the Primary PIX to v6.x the Secondary PIX was
still at v5.2(3). I was to upgrade the Secondary device immediately after
I knew that v6.x was stable (i.e. within 30 minutes) but as the Primary
kept crashing I never moved to that stage.
Can anyone back this theory up or could there be another reason forhnm the
crash? Scheduling outages on this PIX system is difficult so I haven't the
luxury of just trying this out.
Cheers
Jon
Jon Hughes
Accenture
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