Network Security

I have a PIX 501 with 10 users license. How can I timeout the users which are idle and are not accessing the outside interface, so that new users can be given access

The PIX ascertains the trustworthyness of the traffic, based on the interface it is coming from, defined by the security value.When I have LAN-to-LAN or RA VPNs terminated on the PIX, how is the traffic from VPN peers measured ? It is the lowest secu...

We found that we needed to set our PIX time to our time+6 hours in order to get the PDM graphs to indicate correct time. Assuming we in CST are UTC-6, California, PST, would be UTC-8. How does the pix determine which time zone it 'lives in' ?

I have Pix 520 running 6.2(1) and am trying to implement some outbound filtering. Basically I want to deny any host on the inside interface the ability to do pop3 or smtp connections on the outside interface. I have a mail server on a DMZ that they a...

Can I use a PIX but without using NAT?

How would you explain to a client the benefits of using a PIX instead of the Cisco IOS Firewall when they have already purchased the Cisco IOS Firewall with a 2600? Other than the layered approach recommended by Cisco what would be the benefits?Thank...

I need to route traffic from a PIX to 2 routers, so the traffic is balanced on two path. I think to use two static routes with same metric and different next-hop (2 routers).Have you any idea if this configuration works? Do you already configured it?...

On Pix 506 I configured three public IP's as static convertion for Private address ex: the inside address are 10.0.0.201-203 aqnd public address is 207.49.24.50-52The public IP's are not registered even after configuring the Alias command the public ...

Can anyone explan this message from the PIX syslog? The 208.*.*.* address is my DNS server on the outside network. The 63.*.*.* address is a client address on the inside network. The client seems to resolve DNS with no problem. What does this message...

Actually one of our customer is shifting from ISDN to LEASED LINE and the problem is the service provider here provides different ip addresse range for each type of service.But for our customer it is vert difficult to tell all of his users that from ...

How can I find out my activation key. In sh version I can't find this in theIOS version 4.4(4)RegardsRoland

We have a PIX 515 that handles all of our tunnelling and firewalling functionality. We'd like to be able for someone to use the VPN client to tunnel into our network from home and then route to a remote office. The catch is that the remote office is ...

I would like to update software in PIX-515-UR, version 4.4 to 5.x or 6.x. for test purposes. Must I buy a licence or may I just download an image from CCO? Should I have any licence key to do the update?

What ports need to be openned to put a Microsoft server to DMZ network and still keep this server a part of the active directory that is inside the PIX?Thanks,Michael

I was under the impression that by default, conversations started on the inside of a PIX would go out and responses would be allowed in. And it does seem to work like this for various apps like Web, telnet, ftp and so forth. However, I am trying to g...