01-02-2002 02:45 AM - edited 02-20-2020 09:56 PM
Does anybody know if it is possible to configure the PIX firewall (or IOS firewall) to support IPX traffic?
01-02-2002 07:46 AM
I'm interested in this answer, too. I assume you would want to use IPX for VPN access from remote sites or remote users, correct?
If that's the case, my question would be: Does the PIX support IPX and/or other protocols across the VPN tunnel? Where can we read up on that functionality?
Hope we see an answer soon!
01-02-2002 07:56 AM
The PIX firewall does not support IPX and neither does a VPN terminated connection to the PIX (IPSec only supports IP, hence the name IPSec). If you need to run IPX between two sites, you need to encapsulate them in a GRE tunnel.
01-04-2002 04:16 AM
Many thanks for your help.
01-02-2002 10:29 AM
I can confirm that you need to encapsulate IPX traffic with a GRE tunnel. I have set up this solution in a Netware environment from a router to a Catalyst 6000/RSM behind a PIX firewall.
int tu0 on router and RSM
ipx netw xxxx
tunnel source ip add
tunnel dest ip add
on pix
conduit permit gre host ip address host ip address
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