Comments on: Sadly, the PIX Firewall is Discontinued…

By: MargaretRouse

MargaretRouse — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:28:14 +0000

Goodbye PIX and Polaroid instant film. Sigh….Time marches on.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:37:12 +0000

The PIX was never meant for telcos and ISPs; it’s an SMB solution and, I must say, a good one. We service a medium-sized health insurance service firm, a local bank with several branch offices, a credit union, and several other small to medium sized businesses in the financial and health care sectors that have sensitive data to protect. All of them have either a PIX 501 or 506 in place. NONE of them have ever been compromised and configuration/management has never been an issue. Here’s my farewell: http://www.lockergnome.com/gnomewriter/2008/02/10/say-goodbye-to-an-old-friend-cisco-is-retiring-the-pix/

By: Davis420

Davis420 — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:14:34 +0000

Hi Toto-
I appreciate your comments!
Although I agree with all your points and while I would never recommend the PIX to anyone – I guess I just had some attachment knowing that it was always “there”
Thanks for reading!
-David

By: Toto

Toto — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:27:08 +0000

Sadly? You must be kidding. PIX was never considered a viable scalable security solution and was never used in large telco environments such as Carriers or ISP’s. It is difficult to manage, counter intuitive to configure and its performance while good does not surpass competing products in the same price/function range.
PIX has been around for a while starting off on PC based systems (you needed a floppy disk to install or recover the unit!!!!) and its time is over, good riddance.
Lets hope cisco uses what it has learned from its experience and provides us with a better product, which ASA seems to be.