PIX535 booting with "Failed to enable checksum capability"

[sean chang]

Hi, Everyone,

I recently bought one Pix 535 from ebay, it comes with software version 7.22 and I upgraded it to 8.0.4, during booting, this message always comes up: "Failed to enable checksum capability", like the following:

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|          System BIOS Configuration, (C) 2000 General Software, Inc.          |
+---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| System CPU           : Pentium III    | Low Memory           : 637KB         |
| Coprocessor          : Enabled        | Extended Memory      : 1023MB        |
| Embedded BIOS Date   : 11/28/00       | Serial Ports 1-2     : 03F8 02F8     |
+---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+

Cisco Secure PIX Firewall BIOS (4.1) #0: Tue Dec  5 17:35:26 PST 2000
Platform PIX-535
Flash=i28F640J5 @ 0x300

Use BREAK or ESC to interrupt flash boot.
Use SPACE to begin flash boot immediately.
Reading 123392 bytes of image from flash.

PIX Flash Load Helper

Initializing flashfs...
flashfs[0]: 7 files, 3 directories
flashfs[0]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[0]: Total bytes: 16128000
flashfs[0]: Bytes used: 15174656
flashfs[0]: Bytes available: 953344
flashfs[0]: Initialization complete.

.....

Total NICs found: 6
mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 12  MAC: 0002.b362.cfb3
mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 255  MAC: 0002.b363.188c
BIOS Flash=DA28F320J5 @ 0xD8000  MAC: 000e.0c6f.8efc
i82542 rev03 Gigabit Ethernet @ irq255 dev 7 index 01 MAC: 00d0.b782.b013
i82542 rev03 Gigabit Ethernet @ irq12 dev 6 index 02 MAC: 00d0.b7b9.f579

Initializing flashfs...
flashfs[7]: 7 files, 3 directories
flashfs[7]: 0 orphaned files, 0 orphaned directories
flashfs[7]: Total bytes: 16128000
flashfs[7]: Bytes used: 15174656
flashfs[7]: Bytes available: 953344
flashfs[7]: flashfs fsck took 19 seconds.
flashfs[7]: Initialization complete.

Licensed features for this platform:
Maximum Physical Interfaces  : 14
Maximum VLANs                : 150
Inside Hosts                 : Unlimited
Failover                     : Active/Active
VPN-DES                      : Enabled
VPN-3DES-AES                 : Enabled
Cut-through Proxy            : Enabled
Guards                       : Enabled
URL Filtering                : Enabled
Security Contexts            : 2
GTP/GPRS                     : Disabled
VPN Peers                    : Unlimited

This platform has an Unrestricted (UR) license.

Cisco PIX Security Appliance Software Version 8.0(4)
Failed to enable checksum capability
Failed to enable checksum capability

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I did copy startup-config from my existing Pix515E (8.0.4) to this PIX535, I did NOT pay attention if I had the same "failed to enable checksum capability" before image upgrade or startup-config change so I have no idea what this message means ( google doesn't help here), can someone please enlighten me what this message means and how I can get over with it? any suggestions and advices are greatly appreciated

[aswami300]

Hi,

Please interrupt boot process using esc or break and see if your device enters monitor mode. Now check if "fsck disk0:" is available in monitor mode. If yes then run it and check file system on flash.

Boot firewall again to see if this fix this issue or not.

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Anubhav Swami (Anna)

[sean chang]

Thank you Anna,

This PIX doesn't come with fsck, the following is what I did:

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monitor> fsck disk0:

Invalid or incorrect command.  Use 'help' for help.

monitor> fsck

Invalid or incorrect command.  Use 'help' for help.

monitor> help

?                 this help message

address   [addr]  set IP address of the PIX interface on which

                  the TFTP server resides

file      [name]  set boot file name

gateway   [addr]  set IP gateway

help              this help message

interface [num]   select TFTP interface

ping        send ICMP echo

reload            halt and reload system

server    [addr]  set server IP address

tftp              TFTP download

timeout           TFTP timeout

trace             toggle packet tracing

monitor>

[aswami300]

Hi,

Try to reinstal OS from monitor mode:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a00804708d8.shtml#t3

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Anubhav

[sean chang]

Thank you Anubhav,

I did install OS serveral times , the same "failed to enable checksum capability" still comes out. Even during RAM boot this message  comes out too. It does appear this error hurts nothing though. Becuase I bought from Ebay for $1200 , I need to be sure this PIX is OK before I put it into production.