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I would seriously look at the ASA-5510. It will outperform the PIX, has better growth capability and for under $3000 you can get up to 5 ethernet ports.
I use 3 different solutions to log the PIX data and recommend (6) Information logging to get HTTP sites.1. Use FireGen product for syslog analysis and purchased version of kiwisyslog to zip the files after a certain size or time. www.eventid.net/fire...
My company has run into the same issues and what we do is "not" install the proprietary WINSOCK on the PC. We use the "Proxy" capable applications like IE and or any IM client and stop end users from going through the PIX. The servers and specified a...