Re: PIX 500 as ROUTER ONLY

[Mikael Olsson <mikael.olsson () clavister com>]

Michael Leland wrote:
> I have a PIX 500 that I want to use to connect two public IP networks.
> I don't need to provide much security support, simply use it as a simple
> router between subnets.  Any ideas???

AFAIK, the PIX software is pretty much specialized for firewalling.
Trying to turn it into a router might not be possible.

I suspect you could get it to work by cracking open the box, yanking
the boot card (flash + ROM) and popping in a linux router floppy or
somesuch though.  You can kiss your warranty and support contract 
bye-bye, but if you insist on using the PIX hardware, I hear it's 
doable [1]


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[1] From customers of ours that just have to run our software on 
    anything they come across, including other firewall hardware 
    and ... um... X-Boxes [2]

[2] Whyever you'd want to run a firewall on something with
    a single NIC is beyond me, but ... :)
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