Network Security

We are getting some mixed signals from our resellers concerning PIX 3DES upgrades for a 515-UR & 515-FA set-up. Basically we were informed that we only needed to purchase a 3DES upgrade for the main PIX (515UR), while the backup could continue to hav...

Hi all,Does anyone know of any concrete benefits of the PIX over these other two firewalls? I appreciate everyone will go with "the one they know" but are there any differences that I could put forward in the PIX's favour?cheers for your time.Andy

I upgraded our PIX 515 from 5.3(4) to 6.2(2). I want to allow only certain workstations to access the FW with the PDM. However there are more than just the 2 workstations I wanted. I went down the list and did a no "followed by the command and ip" an...

HiI reload the pix OS 5.1(2) witht he help of boothelper and useing pix512.bin file. After recycling the power and loading the OS from the flash, it is asking me to enter 'username' of which i do not have info. i guess this is due to earlier configur...

Hi! all, Should I Update my IOS Pix software v5.3 (1) ??Where can I see the advantages ( in security ) of new versions?thanks in advance.

I want to send syslog info from a remote pix506 to a Win2000 pc on a VPN that travels through a pix515. I set the logging on the 506 with the nat address of the Win2000 machine, but when I try to ping from the 506 it doesn't see it.The Win2000 machi...

I want to have timestamps on my Pix's syslog messages. I have ntp running ok, and I have configured the commands below. logging timestampslogging onlogging host inside (ip address)Alhgough I still have no timestamps in the syslog messages. Any ide...

Is it possible to have lan to lan tunnel b/w pixes with a router doing natting between them. Also what if one one vpn endpoint was a router is it possible. Scenario,One end pix gets a dynamic ip add from DSL router and all traffic through the DSL rou...

Can the PIX (Ver6.2) be used as a PPTP client to connect to a MS server and thereby sharing the VPN connection using 1 IP address? I currently have MS Clients passing through the PIX to a MS server and all is working well until I run out of IP addres...

Gents,I mean once inside private IP addresses are translated to global address.cud anyone ping those ip address (global one)from Internet.I have enabled conduit permit icmp any any (Is this the reason or PIX sud have done this by default)2- why and a...

i looked through the various topics for something similar and didn't find anything. if this is already posted, please accept my apologies.anyway, i have a pix515e, running ver 6.1(2). it has 6 interfaces, internal, external, and 4 DMZs (intf1, intf2...

I set up a gre tunnel from a router outside the firewall to one behind the firewall. When I ping from one side to the other the pings go through for a little bit then stop for a couple seconds, then start again. I can give more info if anybody wants ...

Hi,Is there a way to download Configuration from a PIX 515E using either TFTP or FTP ? As you can do it on Routers by defining the "tftp-server nvram:startup-config ..." command.Regards \\ Naman

is there a way to configure some sort of extended service check (i.e. send string to look for particular web page) on the CSS switch to member servers on a specific pool?