Network Security

Ok, I realize you can't do this with just the pix alone, the best config I could come up with was 3 1720's in front of the pix doing some funky natting. One for the pix and one for each internet connection.These connections are from different ISP's.C...

Hi!PIX Admin. guide says: "The PIX Firewall checks TCP sequence number andensures that it fits within an acceptable range".The questions are:- does the PIX really do this?- does "acceptable range" mean "within the window, but out-of-order TCPsegments...

Pix 501:Can I use a Pix 501 to study for CCIP

I've been trying to find out if the Pix 501 is similar to the other Pix versions so I could study using it.

My inside network uses a NAT pool to go to the Internet. However I have an external site which will only allow access from a predefined address. How do I allow all users going to this one external address use the same (predefined) address and the n...

Does the pix log traffic in some buffer internally that I can look into or Do I need to configure logging and point it to a syslog server.If we need to do the second part Will it affect our utilization or what percentage will it add on our utilizati...

Dear All,Here's my problem:I have a cable ADSL modem supplied by my ISP.The ethernet cable is connected to ethernet 0 in my cisco 2621.Router Ethernet 1 is directly connected to ethernet 0 (outside) of my pix 506EPix's ethernet 1 (inside) is connecte...

We have a client with a network of about 50 users. The client is connected to the net through DSL and has given access to about 25 users of the same for mailing or browsing. The client wants a basic security implementation as they fear that their sit...

Running PIX 515 with one DMZ. Problem is I cannot initiate any sessions from the DMZ side. Ping is the really strange one. I cannot ping from the DMZ to inside, the packets do not hit the debug packet dmz. Packet sniffer shows the requests being...

I'm in the process of deploying an SNMP infrastructure for our network using OpenNMS, and am wondering if I should use either traps or thresholds (or both?) to detect Cisco events such as high router/switch temperature, high CPU usage, etc. I've alw...

How do I erase the configuration, and rebuild the Firewall?

Can you sync time on a PIX 501 (v6.1) with a NTP server? If so, what is the command? Thanks,Rick

From the PIX firewall documentation, it was mentioned that the "clear xlate"command should be used after changing or removing the alias, access-list,conduit, global, nat, outbound, and static commands.Question: Does this command clear (or refresh) th...

Just installed standalone vms 2.1 and attempted to import devices into IDS MC and VPN Routers MC, but I get errors. The IDS MC error I get is importing configuration files from the sensor Could not find version instring "Unknown version". I followe...

Hi, is it possible to use a smart-card (or token, like aladdin e-token) to authenticate a vpn on a pix using the default VPN client (l2tp/ipsec) coming with windows2000/xp ?It seems that EAP support is required and then smartcard/token auth is possib...