Network Security

Hi all,We have a performance issue with our Pix 525. CPU utilization has suddenly shot up to 80-90%, and during peak traffic loads, the pix even crashes.The normal utilization is around 30-40%. The firewall was originally running IOS version 6.2(2...

Dear Forum,Does anybody knows if it is possible to configure source routing on PIX or if there is a bypass solution ?Any comments will be appreciated.Regards

Hi,I have a PIX 6.3(3), this forwards DHCP requests from my internal interfaces to DHCP SERVER (Its ok!), but PXE based-dhcp boot or Floppy disk with MS RIS client don´t work....The MS RIS works fine...Some idea?Thanks

In our network we currently have 4 external unsecure networks that customers use to access our internal secure network. Currently, we use 4 IBM AIX Secureway firewalls to filter the traffic. Upgrading and managing 4 seperate firewalls which are allow...

I am trying to allow inside host pcs on a Pix 501 (running 6.3 os) to be able to browse shared folders on some outside PC's. This is not an NT domain based environment - just your regular workgroup networking technonolgy. I have played with udp 137 a...

Hello,I use vpn3000 with one connection group and an ACS server for users authentication (with RADIUS). There are two groups configured in ACS with different IP pools (10.20.1.x and 10.20.2.x). Private interface of the VPN3000 is configured with 10.7...

Hi, I have two Pix 515E in statefull failover between them.the failover it works correctly but switch from primary to secondary without reason or at least I don't detect it.Please if someone have a solution for my problem answer me soon because I hav...

That pretty much sums it up. Can a pix be setup to monitor all port 25 traffic and then delete any emails that are spam?

I'm wonderng if anyone can help with this problem.I have my PIX configured beautifully.It runs my FTP file server with PASV connections.But when I set the server to allow SSL connections only - the clients (cute ftp/flash ftp etc) trying to connect f...

Iam currently using Security Monitor 1.2.3 to monitor IDS 4235 events. I have added Cisco PIX 515 to the list fo devices to be monitored by Sec Mon. The only problem is that I am NOT getting any message from PIX in the events window.1. The instructio...

I have a site to site VPN from my PIX to a clients VPN 3000 concentrator. The tunnel drops when there is no traffic and only comes back up when they ping or generate trafic from the VPN concentrator 3000, Till then trafic through the PIX 506 does not...

Does anyone know some way to upgrade the pix ids signatures ?

I was at the last stage (99%) of installing Firewall MC 1-3-2 w2k when I gor this message: "Unable to Initialize PIX MC Database" This message came on about 6 of 7 times, and finally I got the message that the installation was complete. Has anyone ru...

I have Cisco VMS 2.2 and IDS 1.2.3 running on my server. No problems. great program. then I added firewall 1.2.3 and now I have this issues.1. When I log in to VMS, all of a sudden, my password no longer works. The deafult user/passwrod admin/admin w...

Are the gigabit cards for the PIX 525 and 535 only available in fibre? Basically are there any gigabit copper cards available for these models?