Re: Any reason not to use PIX ?

[Albert Hopkins <ahopkins () dynacare com>]

I personally do not like the PIX.  I have to admit, I do not have much
experience with Cisco and IOS, and when I was hired by my company and
asked to set up a firewall, I picked the PIX as opposed to a Linux server,
which I am much more familiar with, because the company already used Cisco
products and I thought that an all-in-one solution would be easier to set
up and maintain.

But on second thought I wish I would have set up a Linux box.  I hate the
OS and command syntax of the PIX.  It kills me whenever I have to make a
change to the PIX.

Our senior networking guy pretty good with the Cisco routers, but even he
does not like to do anything on the PIX.  He always asks me to do it :(

As far as the NT GUI tools, well, we've never been able to get them to
install correctly let alone run.

YMMV.


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Albert Hopkins
Sr. Systems Specialist
Dynacare, Inc
ahopkins () dynacare com