PIX 520 VPN

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Does the pix 520 need anything else besides ios to do vpn? I heard you need somekind of vpn accelerator module, is the fact?

 

[yizhar]

HI.

You need activation key to enable DES/3DES.
Issue a "show ver" command to see what you have right now.

The need for additional hardware depends on the kind of VPN (site to site / remote access) and other factors (how many tunnels, bandwidth, encryption and more).

There is an add-on card for 520 to support higher VPN performance, but the basic box can do software VPN.

For more info and details:

http://www.cisco.com/go/pix

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[maalobs]

Upgrading the PIX OS to 3DES feature license is actually free:

https://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Software/Crypto/crypto_main.pl?prod_refer=pix3des

All you need is a CCO user account, but the simplest variant of those is free too, and I just used my free CCO account to recieve the free 3DES activation-key.

There's the usual export restriction from North America of course, but that shouldn't be a problem.