Re: Cisco's SDM firewall and IDS reviews

[celina612 () hotmail com]

Erick,
   SDM is only a graphical interface to configure and secure the router. All the feature sets are based on the routers 
IOS not SDM. If you want to use it as a firewall, make sure you have a firewall IOS installed on the router. This IOS 
is what provides the statefull inspection of traffic. I believe that in the SDM home page you should see the feature 
sets that the currently loaded IOS supports. If you don't have the features you need, you will need to replace the IOS 
not the SDM.