PIX 506 - Limited Throughput ?

Purist1972 · ‎03-20-2007

Hi

I recently found a use for an old PIX 506 that I found in our store cupboard.

After doing a 'show ver' I noticed that although the number of internal hosts was unrestricted, the throughout is 'limited'. The outside ethernet is registering as 10/half.

Can anyone please tell me what the limitation is ? Is it just the difference between 10 and 100 Mbps ?

Rgrds

vitripat · ‎03-20-2007

You are right. PIX-506 will always be at limited throughput as it does not have a Fast ethernet interface. If you use a PIX-506E which comes with fastethernet interfaces, you'll get unlimited throughput.

Hope that answers your concern.

Regards,

Vibhor.

dylan.webb · ‎10-23-2012

Hi,

Concerning the last post by Vibhor which appears to be incorrect as I have a PIX 506e here which is limited to 10Mb Full

as the below show ver indicates.

!-------------------------------------------------------

Hardware: PIX-506E, 32 MB RAM, CPU Pentium II 300 MHz

Flash E28F640J3 @ 0x300, 8MB

BIOS Flash AM29F400B @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB

0: ethernet0: address is 0009.7c48.c0db, irq 10

1: ethernet1: address is 0009.7c48.c0dc, irq 11

Licensed Features:

Failover: Disabled

VPN-DES: Enabled

VPN-3DES: Enabled

Maximum Interfaces: 2

Cut-through Proxy: Enabled

Guards: Enabled

URL-filtering: Enabled

Inside Hosts: Unlimited

Throughput: Limited

IKE peers: Unlimited

!-------------------------------------------------------

Is this a licensing limitation?

Thanks

DGW