Comments on: Cisco PIX: Password recovery/reset

By: Sergio

Sergio — Sun, 01 May 2011 20:29:00 +0000

But how to reset it if you dont know the IP of the Pix either!

By: Awoawo1

Awoawo1 — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:19:00 +0000

Note: You need to determine what .bin file to use, which depends upon the PIX code that your PIX currently runs irrespective of the BIOS version.

By: Iraq

Iraq — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:37:00 +0000

Hiiii all i ahve the solution
avery think are correct above but u need to use SolarWinds-TFTP-Server10.4.0.10
and PuTTY, after u arrive to connect to Monoter>tftp
at first you need to run the solarWinds and u see all the log file when u use th tftp server and told u need to put the file np63.bin in the C:\TFTP-server Root
you need to copy the file np63.bin in this directory at first and then
you run the command tftp server and u will see the dots and finaly ask u to erase the password that’s all.

Good Luck

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:35:00 +0000

good softwore

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:44:00 +0000

This is good but it’s still not working for me. Let me explain. At my workplace they were using PIX 506E before but now they just removed it and using proxy instead. Now, I just want to play with pix for my personal learning purpose and we lost the password.

According to this post it should work fine but I think the enabled ACL and other filtering stuff is preventing TFTP to download image into PIX.

So far I am able to ping TFTP server from PIX but my PC/ TFTP server is not able to ping PIX (may be ACLs)

Anyone has idea how to recover in this case?

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:56:00 +0000

Hello,

When I cycle power on my Cisco PIX-501, it reports three different version numbers. I’m trying to determine which of these version numbers I use when downloading the appropriate “npXX.bin” file for password recovery:

CISCO SYSTEMS PIX-501 Embedded BIOS Version 4.3.200 07/31/01 15:58:22.08

Cisco Secure PIX Firewall BIOS (4.2) #6: Mon Aug 27 15:09:54 PDT 2001

Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(5)

Here’s an extract for Cisco’s Password Recovery web page:

The appropriate binary file, depending on the PIX software version you run:

o np70.bin (7.x and 8.0 release)

o np63.bin (6.3 release)

o np62.bin (6.2 release)

o np61.bin (6.1 release)

o np60.bin (6.0 release)

o np53.bin (5.3 release)

o np52.bin (5.2 release)

o np51.bin (5.1 release)

o np50.bin (5.0 release)

o np44.bin (4.4 release)

o nppix.bin (4.3 and earlier releases)

Note: You need to determine what .bin file to use, which
depends upon the PIX code that your PIX currently
runs irrespective of the BIOS version.

I assume is 6.3, but I’m very new to the Cisco world and I do NOT want to turn a minor problem in to a big problem!

Many thanks,
Rex

By: awais

awais — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:40:00 +0000

i awais afridi i m working on pix 501 i have same problem plz someone help me i will b very thankful to that person…