Cisco Pix 506E - 100Mbps or 10Mpbs?

[royalmail]

We own a Pix506E and I was trying to get a definitive answer to the following question:

Are the two RJ45 interfaces 100Mbps compatible, or only 10Mpbs compatible?

Anyone have the answer?

Thanks.

 

[rgflora]

It depends on the age of the unit. The newer PIX 506E comes with 2 10/100Mbps ports.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/fw/

sqfw500/prodlit/p506e_ds.pdf

Hope is helps!

 

[royalmail]

Thanks.

Is there any way you can tell from the serial number? Ours would appear to be CNM7M50BRA. I know for a fact that it was purchased around April 2002.

 

[rgflora]

Not that I know of...

Plug the unit into a 10/100 switch and see if it connects at 10 or 100.

 

[themut]

The 506E has two 10/100 Fast Ethernet interfaces but you need to be running code 6.3.X
On the other hand the PIX 506 has two 10 Mbps interfaces only, they will never be 10/100 regardless of the code running.

 

[royalmail]

You were spot one themut, thanks.

We now run version 6.3 and PDM 3 which is a big improvement over the old one. I can now clearly select 100Mpbs as an option on the interfaces.