{"id":59,"date":"2010-11-11T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T01:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-no.104.210.61.21.xip.io\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-11-11T21:22:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T21:22:28","slug":"breath-new-life-into-an-old-cisco-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Breath new life into an old Cisco Firewall."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so i needed a way to increase the performance of a firewall i had in use. The issue was i didn&#8217;t have the budget to buy a new firewall.<\/p>\n<p>sound familiar to anyone?<\/p>\n<p>Well i came across a post on Wikipedia that showed a Cisco PIX 506e overclocked and decided to look into the feasibility of doing a little hack job.<\/p>\n<p>( Here is the link for you geeks out there: <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cisco_PIX_mod_screen.png\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cisco_PIX_mod_screen.png\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cisco_PIX_mod_screen.png<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>I also ran across a post detailing a similar adventure. The blog post was titled &#8220;<a title=\"Permanent Link to Upgrading the Cisco PIX\u00a0506E\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2008\/09\/28\/upgrading-the-cisco-pix-506e\/\">Upgrading the Cisco PIX\u00a0506E&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>i decided i HAD to do this or i would be totally lame.<\/p>\n<h2>Here are the highlights:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I found a 700mhz Pentium III chip with a 100mhz FSB at a local computer store for 10 dollars.<\/li>\n<li>I found 320mb of pc100 ram laying around and proceeded to install this in my unit.<\/li>\n<li>I also added some memory heat sinks (2 dollars) to the northbridge to help with cooling.<\/li>\n<li>I cleaned the heatsink and used Arctic Silver thermal paste instead of the transfer pad. (hey maybe it will help with longevity)<\/li>\n<li>Finally i drilled a series of holes in the top of the case to allow cool air to enter the chassis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some quick pictures of the fun!<\/p>\n<p>[cincopa AoMAoXqOKpr1]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so i needed a way to increase the performance of a firewall i had in use. The issue was i didn&#8217;t have the budget to buy a new firewall. sound familiar to anyone? Well i came across a post on Wikipedia that showed a Cisco PIX 506e overclocked and decided to look into the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}