Network Security

We use a VPN Connection between two sites, A=10.1.x.x and B=10.2.x.x., using 2 Pix'es.The VPN connection works perfectly, well it works perfectly 80% of the time......Our different Serviceproviders have some time problems to deliver connection betwee...

Hello, I am curious as to how rpf works on the pix. I found the description in the command ref. to be somewhat vague, and am hoping someone can explain the following points on rpf Ingress filtering :Ingress filtering checks inbound packets for source...

Is there anyway to enrol to a CA without using SCEP?I have a company CA, but it doesn't support SCEP.Using IOS 12.2(8)T.

I would like to use PIX 501s in a partially meshed hub and spoke topology but I have a requirement for the spokes to communicate with each other. According to a TAC tech tip this isn't possible without a fully meshed topo. I already have a router at ...

Hi all,I have two Pix Firewalls 520 making failover. How can I monitoring when one of them fails?The log show me a message when occurs a failover change?Regards,Carlos WelhousTRICOMDominican Republic

Please could somebody explain how i would go about resting a PIX 501 firewall to its default settings, i the main addressing information and have re-entered the default settings from the manual but the PIX no longer allows access to the internet...i ...

Does anyone have any tips on permitting DNS zone transfers through the PIX? We have a business partner with whom we are trying to configure this. Each network is behind a PIX. We have tried using access-lists that permit the specific port (53) for bo...

Hi,Can anybody help to configurate PIX with Interscan Viruswall?. Trendmicro´s people has told me that Interscan Viruswall is 100 % compatible with PIX.Thank you very muchBest RegardsNuria

What this stems from is the ISP does not want to give me multiple IP's. Setup is a ADSL connection acting as a bridge connected to a PIX 501 version 6.2. The outside interface has a public IP address. Then you have to have another public IP for the g...

I am looking at purchasing the PIX 501 with 10 user licenses. The product manual says:The Cisco PIX 501 Firewall 10-user license supports up to 10 concurrent source IP addresses from your internal network to traverse through the PIX 501. The integrat...

Hi,does anybody know, if I need a new activation key for 3DES when upgrading PIX 515 software from version 5.2 to 6.1?

What this stems from is the ISP does not want to give me multiple IP's. Setup is a ADSL connection acting as a bridge connected to a PIX 501 version 6.2. The outside interface has a public IP address. Then you have to have another public IP for the g...

I see that the 6.2 image is available, but I'm seeing that 32MB RAM is required.From what I can see, the 501 only comes with 16MB of RAM.What is the final consensus on whether I can upgrade my 501 image?Thanks.

Hello,I wanted to know when I upgrade the software on the PIX from 6.13 to 6.21 ,should I load the PDM software or is it that PDM software gets downloaded along with 6.21.Also for the remote management of the PIX through VPN tunnel what are the thing...

Hello,If I have exsisting configs on the PIX and I install PDM 2.0 is there any thing that we need to do or it is just that in the PIX I go to "setup" and configure the parameters for the PDM.Or the configuration of the PDM is different when there is...