[c-nsp] PIX515 problems

[Ravi Patwari]

Hello,

I have 16MB of flash. I have tried to various other images with the same 
result. For some reason it immediately goes into checksum error after loading 
an image.

Regards
Ravi

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From: "Shakeel Ahmad" <shakeelahmad at gmail.com>
To: "Amol Sapkal" <amolsapkal at gmail.com>
Cc: ravi at swift-online.com, cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Sent: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:30:39 +0500
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] PIX515 problems

> if your memory is not limited, you should probably look forward to 
> upgrade the firewall OS.
> 
> On 9/8/06, Amol Sapkal <amolsapkal at gmail.com> wrote:Hi Ravi,
> 
> > imgsum_config: sumval(0x2edc) md5(0x46503f01 0xce116d18 0x19bb45db
> > 0x082a6fc5)
> > imgsum_verify: chksum(0x 0) md5(0x83bdfc83 0x3610ddec 0x475fda4e
> > 0x78752f30)
> > Panic: kernel - The checksum verification for this image failed.
> > ==========================
> > The version is5.2(3) which I can see from a copy of the old config I have.
> 
> I am not sure about this, but it could either be a corrupt image file
> or worst, a flash card that has gone bad.
> 
> Incase you have your CCO login, try getting the correct image for the
> PIX (5.2.3 in your case) and re-installing it from the monitor mode.
> If yours is a production PIX, make sure you have your backed-up
> configs in place.
> 
> Also, it is very important that you have your 'Activation Key' handy.
> If you have any of your older 'show version' logs, you can find the
> activation key there. You will need this when you re-install the
> image.
> 
> Incase you plan to go ahead with the above, I would strongly suggest
> that you refer the Cisco documentation for 'upgrading the PIX in
> monitor mode'.
> 
> -Amol Sapkal
> 
> On 9/8/06, Ravi Patwari <ravi at swift-online.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a PIX515 with 2 ethernet ports which was working perfectly but 
since
> > last two days keep rotating through a boot cycle and showing as under:
> > ==========================
> > Copyright 1985-1998 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
> > All Rights Reserved
> >
> > Build Time: 04/27/99 17:08:34
> > Polaris BIOS Version 0.09
> > CPU = Pentium with MMX 200 MHz
> > 640K System RAM Passed
> > 63M Extended RAM Passed
> > 0512K Cache SRAM Passed
> > System BIOS shadowed
> >
> > Cisco Secure PIX Firewall BIOS (4.0) #0: Thu Mar 2 22:59:20 PST 2000
> > Platform PIX-515
> > Flash=i28F640J5 @ 0x300
> >
> > Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt flash boot.
> > Use SPACE to begin flash boot immediately.
> > Reading 2032128 bytes of image from flash.
> > 64MB RAM
> > imgsum_config: sumval(0x2edc) md5(0x46503f01 0xce116d18 0x19bb45db
> > 0x082a6fc5)
> > imgsum_verify: chksum(0x 0) md5(0x83bdfc83 0x3610ddec 0x475fda4e
> > 0x78752f30)
> > Panic: kernel - The checksum verification for this image failed.
> > ==========================
> > The version is 5.2(3) which I can see from a copy of the old config I 
have.
> >
> > Please advise what could be the problem and how do I fix the same.
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ravi
> >
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> 
> --
> Warm regards,
> 
> Amol Sapkal
> 
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