RE: pix vs. ios firewall feature set

["Noonan, Wesley" <Wesley_Noonan () bmc com>]

Just curious, but why not throw a PIX 501 or 506 in the small offices?
Obviously, needing something other than an Ethernet interface requires a
router, but in my experience a lot of small offices are hanging off of DSL,
Cable Modem or Ethernet wired BANs (building area networks) so a PIX (or any
of the other SOHO firewalls) works really good.

Wes Noonan, MCSE/CCNA/CCDA/NNCSS/Security+
Senior QA Rep.
BMC Software, Inc.
(713) 918-2412
wnoonan () bmc com
http://www.bmc.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Stewart [mailto:pauls () nexicom net]
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 07:21
> To: avraham () jct ac il; firewall-wizards () icsalabs com
> Subject: RE: [fw-wiz] pix vs. ios firewall feature set
>
> I posed this question previously and was told that almost all features at
> incorporated into the IOS.  The features I use most are in both but I'm
> sure
> there's features that are not in the IOS FW Feature Set.. Kinda wish
> someone
> had a list of what's *not* in the IOS... Anyone? :)
>
> My adoption of using IOS for firewalling has been that of for small
> clients
> (under 100 workstations).... Anything over 100 or so users I use a PIX box
> specifically....
>
> Take care,
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com] On Behalf Of avraham
> shir-el (arthur sherman)
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 5:33 PM
> To: firewall-wizards () icsalabs com
> Subject: [fw-wiz] pix vs. ios firewall feature set
>
>
>
> gentlemen:
> a cisco engineer recently told me that the plan for the above 2 products
> is
> %100 feature convergence and that currently, there's about %80 of the
> features of pix present in the ios firewall feature set. any comments as
> to
> the reality of the above?
>
> tnx
> ams
> avraham shir-el
> director of computing center
> jerusalem college of technology - machon lev
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