Security Device Manager

wesley.roberts · ‎03-09-2009

I downloaded SDM to help me configure a site to site vpn. I tried loading versions:

25

241

232

Basicly everything on the download page. I get:

"The router model is unsupported by SDM"

Can I not use SDM with my router?

Cisco 2621 <---no it is not XM

c2600-ik9o3s3-mz.122-15.T10.bin

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ohassairi · ‎03-09-2009

according to

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps5318/product_data_sheet0900aecd800fd118.html

only xm is supported

wesley.roberts · ‎03-10-2009

I wonder if I wasted my time on this 2621 by upgrading the ram, IOS, installing AIM vpn/bp card in to try and do site to site VPNS. Am I wasting my time?

Leo Laohoo · ‎03-10-2009

You can still configure VPN using CLI.

Richard Burts · ‎03-10-2009

Kyle

In your original post you seem to indicate that this is the IOS code in your router:

c2600-ik9o3s3-mz.122-15.T10.bin

If this is really the IOS that you are running, then Leo is right that you can configure VPN site to site using the CLI since this version of IOS does include support for crypto and for IPSec VPN.

and in this case I do not believe that you have wasted your time. In fact by the time you get IPSec VPN site to site to work from the CLI you will have learned much more than you would have if SDM had worked for you.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick

Eddy Michael Acevedo Garcia · ‎03-12-2009

i agreed with rburts. you ll learn a lot more using the CLI. it brings some kind of flexibility and skills you would not get using SDM.

Leo Laohoo · ‎03-12-2009

Cisco has, in the last 4 years, used SDM as to encourage new converts to Cisco equipments. Unfortunately, SDM is well-known to be CPU and memory hungry (to your appliance), slow and not as feature rich as the CLI.

You'll learn alot more, quicker using CLI than SDM.

Sam Smiley · ‎03-13-2009

Hi Wesley,

The above post are correct in that the 2600 none XM will not run SDM. However they will do site-to-site VPN just fine. Here is a link to a config that I know works with site-to-site.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk583/tk372/technologies_configuration_example09186a008014bcd7.shtml

Cheers,

Sam

wesley.roberts · ‎03-15-2009

Sam, that was very helpful. Im going to Omit somethings out of the article that or for cosmetic reasons and post back here so someone else can use it in the future...

More to come