Here at our company we sell a lot of LANtoLAN VPN solutions using 506,515R and 515UR hardware. In the past everything has worked very well and our clients have been extremely pleased with the results. But the last four 515's (3 515R's, 515UR) are having a lot of problems just passing packets. It seems they can run from 10 minutes to 4 days but still the firewalls seem to seize. And when I say seize I mean you can't even console to them. All the devices are running 6.0.1, usually with a VPN Accelerator card in them. But even just running the chaise alone with no card additions, the systems still freeze and need to be rebooted. I do have a case open with three of the 515's and we are going to RMA those devices. These three units came from the same vendor and pretty much left the assembly line one after another. This leads me to believe that maybe it was just a bad batch and Cisco is working to correct problem and get these units back before they made it to customer sites. This morning though, I had yet another 515 fail at our office that I have been testing for the past few days. This PIX came from a different vendor and was bought about 45 days ago. Has anyone else seen these problems with PIX 515's? Here at our company we preach and preach and preach that Cisco firewall and VPN solutions are the best in the business. It's hard to sell and have confidence in that solution if the 515's that you are putting into place will not run for more than 30 minutes usually.
Thank you, any comments would be great.
