Re: Hardware Firewall vs Software Firewall

[Robert Claeson]

Leytens Francois X. wrote:

> PIX are the Cisco firewall. This is a pure hardware firewall. Check the
> following URLs
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/fw/sqfw500/
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/fw.htm
> 
> They are layer 2-3 firewall working more like ACL mode than any other
> firewall


The Cisco PIX boxes are stateful inspection firewalls, just like the 
Firewall-1. Like all good firewalls, the also have access lists.

/Robert