Network Security

By default the Static command doesn't impose any limit on the max. no. of SYN packets that can come thru the PIX. Because of a recent DoS attack, I need to enable this feature, but was wondering what different PIX administrators use for this value......

Hi, We have a cisco Pix firewall 515 and i had loaded 6.3(3) IOS couple of weeks back and everything was working fine. Today when i rebooted this firewall the firewall did not boot and it was always getting rebooted. I went to monitor mode and tried ...

hi, how to configure pix to view logging with timestamp. I tried the logging timestamp that is for syslog server. Does anyone know how to setup to view the timestamp in pix logging buffer by itself ?best regards.fred.

I've never worked witha PIX before so I am in new territory.I Want to drop the pix into my existing network without changing any internal addresses and not using NAT. We are in a university environment and have public static assigned IPs. I just want...

I have a problem with some PIX 506E. Without apparent reason the PIX it remains hanging. When it becomes a reset the PIX it does not boot(show the PCI Device Table) but does not do anything any more.The only solution is to open the PIX and change the...

I have a lab PIX with 6.3(3) on it and I tried to setup a logical interface with the following:"interface ethernet2 10 logical"This fails to create a logical interface, do I have to create a vlan somehow first?PIX is 515 (Not the E type) and has a re...

Hello,I need to configure the PIX in order to use audio and video for MSN Messenger.Regards

the software that allows it to be the Master Controller in a Cisco OER (Optimized Edge Routing) environment. I can find the CNS 2100 appliance in the currant price list, but nothing that relates to the OER Master Controller Engine software.

HelloI just noticed a problem with our L2L connection.The setup is.:Host VPN Concentrator 3005 Version 3.6.7Remote site Cisco 838 shdsl router running IOS 12.3Problem.:The Lan to Lan is up and running if a user, at the remote site connect his pc and ...

I am deploying CW2K to a network. The network includes some Cisco workgroup switches those were installed without being configured with any IP address. Is there a away to use CW2K to have an inventory of all devices in the network including those swi...

Hi,Were experiencing a problem with print-traffic trough our PIX.After sniffing we noticed that the print-traffic actually consist of not a normal tcp-3 way handshake but a "syn synack pshack" conversation, which is not allowed by the pix. After talk...

I have a PIX506E with the default memory configuration of 32MB DRAM.I have noticed the memory module on the system board, and there is a spare slot for additional memory next to it.I have seen used PIX's out there with configurations of memory upto 2...

Hi,I have 2 PIXies with configured failover.Yesterday I switch off and then switch on Secondary PIX.But when I doing telnet to Primary or Sercondary PIX and put "show ver" to get Up Time I see still the same time, 270 days in my case. But Secondary w...

I would like to come back over a problem I have already post regarding applications failure over vpn tunnel. In fact We have made some investigations and the problem seems to be « located ».What happens is :- The VPDN authentification with AAA server...

Greetings!I have reduced the command privilege as follows:"privilege exec level 1 show startup-config"Now any user with level 1 access can see the startup configuration, but with that he is also able see the snmp community strings in clear text.Enabl...