Network Security

I have purchase 2 515E's in failover bundle. They are configured with v6.1 and I want to upgrade them to v6.2 so that I can run standby over the LAN instead of failover cable. I have upgraded the software on the active PIX and I cannot upgrade the SW...

We have a group of clients working inside of our facility who need to access their office network using the Nortel Contivity Vpn software through our Pixfirewall and have requested that we make the required configuration changes to our Pix device to ...

I have a "problem" when I configure an PIX (via the PIX MC) to work with an AUS. In the Configure/Settings/Server and Services/Auto Update ServerI do have to specify the parameter with are then used by the PIX to contact the AUS (as far as I understo...

I have a customer that needs to have access to AOL mail and Hotmail through the pix. The pix is up and running just fine but access to theses pages sometimes fails. Is there a bug in 6.x. Has anyone else seen or had this problem?Thanks in advance

I have 3 internal networks on pix inside interface, to access from outside or dmz to my internal servers I have to create static nat for all these networks on dmz, outside interface, and other interfaces(if i want to reach my server from that interfa...

What is the trick to getting PDM to run from the untrust/public interface without building a VPN tunnel to it? It uses HTTPS, so what's the problem?Any suggestions?Thanks!

When i configure on a PIX v.6.2.1 a route default for the net 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 towards a gateway on a DMZ and creating a VPN PIX-to-PIX with an access-list to a remote net 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 the routing excludes this net from the route ...

Is it possible to setup some kind of a round-ribbon with the PIX. Currently have one web server and will be setting up another for redundancy. Currently using NAT (one-to-one) .Want to point users to both systems using one NAT address.

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.