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May 28, 2007 at 3:14 pm #2267048
Cannot connect to Cisco PIX 501
Lockedby george.kyriacou100 · about 16 years, 10 months ago
Hi all, i have a cisco pix 501 and have none of its configuration or password information, i dont even know its local ip address. How can i connect to the device??
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May 28, 2007 at 3:14 pm #2594423
Clarifications
by george.kyriacou100 · about 16 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Cannot connect to Cisco PIX 501
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May 28, 2007 at 9:24 pm #2595688
How did you acquire this device?
by deepsand · about 16 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Cannot connect to Cisco PIX 501
I’ve seen cases where a client has leased/purchased a PIX from an ASP, the PIX now needs to be re-configured, finds out that the ASP has been subsumed by a different company, only the original ASP had record of the Access Code, so that their PIX is now little more than a doorstop.
Hence the question as to how you came to have this device.
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May 29, 2007 at 3:38 am #2595654
Taken from office network
by george.kyriacou100 · about 16 years, 10 months ago
In reply to How did you acquire this device?
it is from my old workplace, we changed IT companies as the old one hacked us off and as we did not get passed over the details (username, password, etc) from the old company, the new company just ripped this one out and put in a new one to save time.
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May 29, 2007 at 4:52 pm #2595424
Been there, done that.
by deepsand · about 16 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Taken from office network
Unfortunately, unless you can get the old IT company to produce the access code, you’re sunk re. reconfiguring it, unless you can find someone whose has expertise in cracking Cisco PIXs; that’s why the new company replaced it with a new unit.
However, you may still be able to use it. If it was originally used as a gateway, odds are that the internal IP address assigned to it is within a fairly narrow range of commonly used addresses.
The 3 blocks reserved for private, i.e. local networks are
10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255Also, IP addresses in the range of 169.254.0.0 -169.254.255.255 are reserved for Automatic Private IP Addressing.
If you know, or can find out, the range of IP addresses used by the LAN from which this PIX was used, we can deduce the most likely address(es) assigned to it.
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May 30, 2007 at 3:07 am #2595293
Hmmmm
by george.kyriacou100 · about 16 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Been there, done that.
No way i can get that info from the old company, what if i wa to take out the lithium battery from inside the unit and then replace it, will this reset it??
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May 30, 2007 at 3:37 am #2595287
cisco docs available to try
by oharaphil · about 16 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Hmmmm
if you follow: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/110/34.shtml
See if it helps
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May 30, 2007 at 4:33 am #2595269
thanks for your advice
by george.kyriacou100 · about 16 years, 10 months ago
In reply to cisco docs available to try
I will have to make up a serial cable for the console port, once i have done that i will try it out, thanks for your advice, much appreciated.
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September 17, 2007 at 7:52 pm #2606526
Cisco recovery docs worked like a charm
by cruzramirezjr · about 16 years, 6 months ago
In reply to cisco docs available to try
Hey you guys, I stumbled across these posts while researching how to recover/remove unknown passwords from a Cisco PIX 501 that I have. The documentation posted at http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/110/34.shtml worked like a charm.
I followed the instructions step by step, I connected the PIX to a LAN switch via Ethernet0, assigned it a local LAN address, downloaded solarwinds tftp server as well as the corresponding .bin file for my PIX sotware version. I ran the tftp server on the laptop I was using to console to the PIX, specified my laptops LAN IP as the tftp server, everything work without a hitch, I was able to remove all the passwords.
Thanks a lot for the info!
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May 30, 2007 at 6:38 pm #2577110
In that case, …
by deepsand · about 16 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Hmmmm
since the most commonly used IP range for LANs is the 192.168 block, and the most common practice is to assign the gateway the 1st address in the last octet, so that most have an address of 192.168.1.1, or 192.168.2.1, or 192.168.3.1, etc., you might easily find it via a brute force approach
Additionally, if it might be of help to you, I do have a complete image of Cisco’s 2 CD set for the PIX series.
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June 21, 2007 at 5:03 pm #2589671
Was the advice you received here helpful?
by deepsand · about 16 years, 9 months ago
In reply to Cannot connect to Cisco PIX 501
If so, your marking it here accordingly will be of use to others who seek the same or similar assistance.
Thank you.
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February 7, 2008 at 5:06 am #3319690
I have the same problem mentioned
by jl.roduit · about 16 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Was the advice you received here helpful?
I have the same problem mentioned and i don’t know how to replace the old settings by the old one’s.
This morning i tried to change the IP address of the pix and now impossible to reach the address I configured.
Any solutations ? thx in advance
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August 20, 2008 at 2:33 pm #2930293
bin file hangs?
by pcoleman · about 15 years, 7 months ago
In reply to I have the same problem mentioned
I have gone through all the above steps and all seems to go well until the file transfer is received. The it just sits there with received 110592 bytes on the screen and never starts running the cisco password reset utility. any suggestions?
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September 23, 2010 at 9:32 pm #2875333
here,I think
by mr.ozzy · about 13 years, 6 months ago
In reply to Cannot connect to Cisco PIX 501
connect your pc to router’s lan port
and select your pc’s ip to obtain ip address
and check your pc ip address
e.g..192.168.0.1
so..ping to 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.254
if there router’s ip ,reply and you can get your router ip address.just guess my opinion.
thanks
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