Network Security

Is there a substantial security difference between using reflexive ACLs for IP session filtering in IOS and the stateful firewall technology of the PIX? Thanks,RJ

I have a customer with PIX firewalls at three locations. They use a proprietary program that sends information between the stores every night using the "blast" protocol on port 1200. Since I installed these PIX firewalls, they can no longer transfer...

Hi, Am upgrading the 6.1 to 6.23 on PIX 525 , and am getting error monitor> interface 10: i8255X @ PCI(bus:0 dev:14 irq:10)1: i8255X @ PCI(bus:0 dev:13 irq:11)2: i8255X @ PCI(bus:1 dev:0 irq:11)3: i8255X @ PCI(bus:1 dev:1 irq:10)4: i8255X @ PCI(bus...

This is an ez question I know, but, I still would like guidance before I proceed.I have What's up Gold 8.0 installed on a monitoring station. If I install CW 6.0 onto the same station will it seamlessly integrate itself with WUG 8.0? Or, do I need to...

Hi ,i am trying to copy the config from the pix firewall to a tftp server.i define the tftp srever and the pix is able to communicate with tftp server.tftp-server inside 172.16.4.132 software/cisco/ciscoas5350the following is the error message i am ...

HelloI have a PIX 515E-UR with software version 6.3. After saving my configuration, the firewall displayed the following message :Watchdog timeout failure! Please contact customer support. PC SP STATE Runtime SBASE Stack P...

The following is part of my configuration:access-list 101 permit tcp any host xxx.xx.xxx.36 eq 5900 global (outside) 1 xxx.xx.xxx.37-xxx.xx.xxx.38static (inside,outside) tcp xxx.xx.xxx.36 5900 192.168.100.253 5900 netmask 255.255.255.255 0 0access-gr...

Hi,I have suddenly started to get the following error message when trying to run PDM from my PC to our PIX 515e Firewall.'Your PIX image has a version number of unknown. This version of PDM will only interoperate with versions that start with 6.0 or ...

Hello all,I am having a problem with the dmz on the PIX. All connections to the DMZ from the outside work correctly.However when I try to access our webserver on the DMZ from the inside.. Everything slows to a crawl. It can take up to 3-5 minutes to ...

I've downloaded the CiscoWorks Security Suite 90-day Eval, but it does not come with an eval license for the CSA suite. The documentation said I had to request one, how is this done? Online? Through a Cisco rep?

After installing a PIX 501 Firewall at a client, they are complaining that when they send e-mail from Outlook Express 6 that a message displays for 30 - 60 seconds stating that is Connecting to the Server. The e-mail does send correctly after this d...

Hi,Is it possible to set the MTU for a PIX Ethernet interface to a value greater than 1500 ?I know that it will allow me to do it in the PIX software but the documentation says that the Max. Value is 1500 for Ethernet Interfaces ?Which one is True ? ...

hello,i have a pix 520, and when he start, he do some checkings , fire a error, and restart. If i boot from a floppy, he say that flash is obsolete, can i do something???here are the outputs:Finesse Bios V3.3Booting Floppy...............................

Hi,When i attempt to upgrade the PIX Software, on my "PIX Classic Firewall"i get the below error. Do i need to change any Dip switch settings on the Flash card (ISA)?I get the below error when i boot of the boothelper disk.I have a 2MB Flash card. I ...