[TriLUG] Anyone have experience with Cisco PIX501 firewall/router?

Dan trilug at daijin.nulluser.com
Mon Jun 21 04:36:37 EDT 2004


--On Monday, June 14, 2004 02:12:33 PM -0400 Brian Henning 
<brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:

> Hiyo,
>   I'm trying to configure a PIX501 firewall appliance because my employer
> spent money on it and would rather use it than shelve it in favor of
> fw/routing through a linux machine (which I would rather do of
> course....).   Anyhow, does anyone have any experience configuring such a
> beast?  All I want to do is deny all inbound traffic, except for
> forwarding ports for smtp, http, pop and imap to a particular internal
> host.
>   I can't find any config stuff for simple port-forwarding; it seems this
> device wants to basically map external IPs to internal IPs 1-to-1 in terms
> of inbound routing, which is no good for us since we only have one
> external IP.  (At this point, all those ports are going to the same host,
> so for now a 1-to-1 would work, but that may not remain the case forever,
> and I'd rather do it right the first time)
>
> So...  any help for me out there?
>


I can help you with this... if you still need the help.
-- 
Dan



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