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Re: PIX 520 not booting from floppy, failed upgrade

Subject: Re: PIX 520 not booting from floppy, failed upgrade
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 19:59:42 -0600
We had two Cisco PIX 520 (REV D0) running in failover mode. We decided
to upgrade one of them to the latest software, I think 6.3 or 7
version. The upgrade failed and one of the firewall is down since more
than 5 days now. Booting from floppy also fails. Till now I have tried
both version 5 and 6 to try and get it up and the upgrade fails saying
"Checksum error". I tried a different floppy also but the same error.

Yesterday I also tried pressing the "reset" button on the front panel
hoping that to reset PIX to factory defaults but that too did not
help.

Please do send in your thoughts at the earliest.

Thank you & await your reply.

Call your cisco support representative? Replace them with a pair of OpenBSD firewalls running in failover configuration? Not a lot to go on here other than "it's broken". Pray the remaining one doesn't break?


-Kurt

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