PIX 520 prompt frozen at host prompt.

[Steven16]

I have a PIX 520 that absolutley wont respond to keyboard input. Thankfully this is a non-production PIX for LAB use. But it's useless if I can't access it.

Even at boot up it does not respond to the break key.
It will boot up with floppy.
Anyway to reset is via shorting a bois pin inside or something?


How can I use boot helper to wipe out the IOS and rebuild it?

 

[haknwak]

Steven16 - First make absolutely sure your terminal and serial port settings
(baud, handshaking, parity, stop bits, data bits etc)

are correct.

"Step 6 At the COM1 Properties dialog box, set the following fields:

Bits per second to 9600.
Data bits to 8.
Parity to None.
Stop bits to 1.
Flow control to Hardware."

from

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/pix/pix_v51/config/config.htm#xtocid2

If you still can't connect, you need to tftp any PIX above 5.1.4 I think - it won't fit on a floppy. You also need to search CCO -

go here

http://tools.cisco.com/RPF/register/register.do

to register -

I just went and searched CCO for boot helper pix and came up with your answer.
(it's fairly long so I won't post it in its entirety here)

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/110/upgrade.shtml

go here -

http://www.cisco.com/kobayashi/sw-center/ciscosecure/pix.shtml

-

to download PIX software -

go here -

http://www.networkingfiles.com/Network/ciscotftp.htm

-

to get a tftp server program
(you can search for other tftp software - this is just the one that Cisco has)




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