Network Security

Hi,What is the difference between FWSM modules of 6500 switch vs PIX firewall hardware.Also can somebody give the PRO's and CON's of both the module when positioning.Which one is better FWSM or PIX firewall.RegardsDeepak

Hi everyone.I generally do NOT do networking, so I may be a bit slow.I'm trying to connect a branch office to a head office with two PIX 501s.I'll need ping, traceroute and all windows packets to traverse the system.The system topology is as follows:...

I have a problem with inside routing on a pix 515. The pix has inside ip 192.168.200.254/24 and is acting default-gate to all nodes on this net. There is also a vpn router on the inside with ip adress 192.168.200.245/24. vpn router has a default rout...

I am only a CCNA student, so please be gental...I am trying to configure a Cisco PIX firewall version 5.3.Here is my current setup:PC <-- x-over cable --> firewall <--- router ----> InternetThe inside interface has an IP of 10.27.164.254, and the out...

There was an emergency notification last night that I want to be sure everyone has seen:1. Emergency IPS Version 5.0(5) Service Pack to be Released on 10/28 to Address CSCsa85330An emergency service pack will be released later today (October 28, 2005...

Yesterday I install a new 5.0.2 image on IDSM-2 module and works fine. Then I try to upgrade the maintenance partition to version 3. it's popup a message and looks running and not finish for a long time. So I leave it there and go home. Today morning...

Hello,I have a PIX 501 with two interfaces. I am trying to setup a webserver behind the internal interface.I have a single public IP assigned to the interface.global (outside) 1 interfacenat (inside) 1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0 0I tried static (inside,outsid...

Upgraded an IDS4210 yesterday from 414s186. Used patch 414h, service pack 415s189, and signature update 415s197.Following updates, it appears some event filters are being ignored... particularly the event filter for sig 1107 (rfc1918 private addresse...

I'm experiencing troubles in adjusting parameters for this 'Long Http Request' signature (5322). We have a lot of legitimate http traffic with rather long http requests (> 1000 char). So I tried modifying all parameters that have something to do with...

We have 4 Pix 535's. two are running ver 6.3 and two are running ver 7.0 We have problems with high CPU on both. This has been on ongoign sisue whoch Cisco ahs not been able to resolve.We cannot get more than 350mbs throughput without the CPU exceedi...

how is asa redundancy implemented. the pix counterpart has a failover firewall which was half the price of the primary pix.is this still true with the asa?thanks

I have the following question:I need to configure an IDSM2-Sensor in a slightly different way. A special (allowed) traffic eg tcp xyz is passing the switch through access list. All othe traffic is denied by default. This special traffic has to be “sc...

We have a partner company which we share wire with so when we became partners we were able to configure a direct link between our networks in a shared closet.We want to be able to protect our respective networks so we have dedicated PIX firewalls tha...