Introduction

This book focuses on the complete product line of Cisco firewall hardware: the PIX and ASA Security Appliance families and the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM). Of the many sources of information and documentation about Cisco firewalls, very few provide a quick and portable solution for networking professionals.

This book is designed to provide a quick and easy reference guide for all the features that can be configured on any Cisco firewall. In essence, an entire bookshelf of firewall documentation, along with other networking reference material, has been “squashed” into one handy volume.

This book covers only the features that can be used for stateful traffic inspection and overall network security. Although Cisco firewalls ...

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