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

[Jon Carnes]

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/ps2031/index.html

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 14:12, Brian Henning 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?
> 
> Thanks as always,
> ~Brian
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