Good day, Vish - We attempted to use the Cisco + IOS firewalling feature to do three things:
1) act as the external routers for our sites and augment the Checkpoint firewalls we already had on site. 2) provide local access to Internet services (www, telnet, ftp, etc) 3) connect to the corporate infrastructure via IPSec VPN. Just between you and me, I'll be hornswaggled if I can see much difference between the IOS configuration and a suite of standard access lists. But be that as it may, here is what we found: 1) This works to provide ingress filtering and outgoing NAT. But you don't need IOS to do that. 2) This works... But you still don't need IOS to do that. 3) This works... To other Cisco routers and only if you do not need 1) and 2). If you try to combine these functions, you get into configuration nightmares. On the other hand, the Checkpoint systems can do all three functions. Dan -----Original Message----- From: vishwas asemend [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 5:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Comparison between checkpoint and Cisco IOS firewall Hi all, I want to choose a firewall. and finally i came to two firewall , checkpoint and cisco-ios can anybody tell me the advantages and disadvantages of cisco_ios and checpoint NG or 4.1 Regards Vish ------------------------------------------------------------ Get your free email from http://www.netjaal.com _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
