topic Re: PIX Firewalls in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-firewalls/m-p/817316#M972970 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P></P><P>The 525 has a lot of ports to choose from. Physically you have 2 and you can add up to at least 3 more fiber connections via an add-on card (probably 6 b/c there are dual cards out there). </P><P></P><P>This design has a single point of failure. If the firewall goes down you are hosed on both networks. </P><P></P><P>If you don't have much traffic the 501's are pretty cheap these days, relatively speaking. If this is a big production network then you may consider getting 2 of the 525's and running one in passive/failover mode. You do not need a full license for that one, it reads its config off of the other one and takes over when the first one fails. </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:27:38 GMT maxwellhouse 2007-07-18T16:27:38Z PIX Firewalls https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-firewalls/m-p/817315#M972969 <P>Sir,</P><P></P><P>i have two DSL Modems &amp; Two Different Networks. i want that both Network traffic should be filtered through One Firewall means two in &amp; two out ethernet Ports. Please help me that which firewall series i should use for it. Please reply me Soon. </P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:46:10 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-firewalls/m-p/817315#M972969 hafeez 2019-03-11T10:46:10Z Re: PIX Firewalls https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-firewalls/m-p/817316#M972970 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P></P><P>The 525 has a lot of ports to choose from. Physically you have 2 and you can add up to at least 3 more fiber connections via an add-on card (probably 6 b/c there are dual cards out there). </P><P></P><P>This design has a single point of failure. If the firewall goes down you are hosed on both networks. </P><P></P><P>If you don't have much traffic the 501's are pretty cheap these days, relatively speaking. If this is a big production network then you may consider getting 2 of the 525's and running one in passive/failover mode. You do not need a full license for that one, it reads its config off of the other one and takes over when the first one fails. </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:27:38 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/pix-firewalls/m-p/817316#M972970 maxwellhouse 2007-07-18T16:27:38Z