Chapter 4. Cisco Secure PIX Firewall

This chapter contains the following sections:

This chapter focuses on the Cisco Secure Private Internet Exchange (PIX) Firewall. The strength of the security features within the PIX lay in the fact that it was designed solely as a firewall. Although a PIX Firewall will do a limited amount of routing, the real purposes of the PIX are to deny unrequested outside traffic from your LAN and to form secure Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) between remote locations. A router requires a great deal of configuration ...

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