Cisco Pix 515 Help

I am trying to figure out if the dhcp is disabled on my 515 but I dont know to much about unix or its commands to find out. I can log into it but I am stuck on where exactly to go? Could anyone please help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks Neal

I know that by default dhcp is disable on the older model Cisco equipment.

I know if you input "show run" at the command prompt and look for "dhcp enable inside" i think is the command.

Your best friend is www.cisco.com and just search for dhcp on pix 515.

These snippets are some things you might see:

interface management 0/0

ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

nameif management

security-level 100

no shutdown

asdm logging informational 100

asdm history enable

http server enable

http 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 management

dhcpd address 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.254 management

dhcpd lease 3600

dhcpd ping_timeout 750

dhcpd enable management

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dhcpd address 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.254 inside

dhcpd auto_config outside

dhcpd enable inside


===================THis is the 515 default config

interface ethernet 1

ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

nameif management

security-level 100

no shutdown

asdm logging informational 100

asdm history enable

http server enable

http 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 management

dhcpd address 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.254 management

dhcpd lease 3600

dhcpd ping_timeout 750

dhcpd enable management

Usually if you use the negate commands "no" for of the commands that enable dhcp it usually disables it.

So "no dhcpd address 192.168.1.2-192.168.1.254 management" and so on for teh dhcp commands listed for the 515 and that show up in your config.

As for you username problem. You can access the enable mode correct? If so you can reset the admin password using "configure terminal" to access the global config mode and then "username admin password xxxxx."

If you can't access the terminal to configure it I think its possible to break into these in the same way as a router. I assume your using the console connection to connect to it. To do that you have to power down and power on the PIX and when its booting you'll see the "system bootstrap" info and at that point you press "ctrl + break" to get to rommon. I think this works, don't quote me on it even though I used quotes

Let me know how it goes. Try the username commands first.

When you started configuring this PIX did you delete all the information on prior to working on it?

I've never heard of an error like that before, it sounds like an SSL error.

I see. I'm a command line guy myself. I've never used the PIX device manager before.

Well the hostname on a PIX usually refers to what you see at the command line. By default it says "PIX#" you can change it using the "hostname xxxxx" command at the configure terminal prompt.

Is this PIX in use while your working on it?

When you access the command prompt its what you see on screen by the text cursor.

Also I recommend copying your configuration just in case. The nice thing about the command line is you can copy and past text.