Comments on: FIREWALL Cisco PIX525 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/firewall-cisco-pix525/ Thu, 23 May 2013 13:24:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: blankreg http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/firewall-cisco-pix525/#comment-63511 blankreg Wed, 13 May 2009 07:30:50 +0000 #comment-63511 First I would ask why are you wanting to do this. The PIX515 you have is a good device for almost all sites up to a big medium sized business. The 525 is really for large corporate business. It is considerably noisier as well. The only advantage is that it is faster and allows Gigabit Ethernet interfaces (although they can not pass traffic at this rate due to hardware limitations in the PIX itself).

Both run exactly the same operating system, so anything you can do on the 525 you can already do on the 515.

If you want to change the config, to make it more robust, or to add new features, you can already do this with the PIX515, no need to change.

If you are looking to replace it anyway, then you should really look at the Cisco ASA5500 series, as these do everything that the PIX will do, but are MUCH faster, and have more interfaces and features as standard. Plus thay have additional modules available for virus filtering, IPS function etc.

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