What is the difference between cisco pix and cisco ASA ?
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Answer / lingam
6. Difference between PIX and ASA
Cisco PIX:
Ø Is a dedicated hardware firewall appliance
Ø Act as a Stateful packet filtering firewall.
Ø Use PIX operating system similar in interface to
Cisco IOS .
Ø Use PIX Device Manager (PDM) for a graphical
interface.
Ø Provide stateful firewall protection and IP Security
(IPSec) VPN capabilities
Ø To ensure the security PIX use inside interface ,
outside interface etc concepts
Ø Pix running in 6.3 v
Ø Not supported WebVPN
Ø Not support Transparent Firewall, Security Context
and Modular Policy
Ø 16 MB RAM
Cisco ASA:
Ø Is firewall and anti-malware security appliance
Ø The Enterprise Editions include four versions:
Firewall, IPS, Anti-X, and VPN.
Ø ASA can also serve as an intrusion prevention system
(IPS) and VPN concentrator.
Ø Also covers new threats to a network like viruses,
worms, unwanted applications (e.g., P2P, games, instant
messaging), phishing, and application-layer attacks.
Ø Act as an “all-in-one” device—or a unified threat
management (UTM) device
Ø ASA running in 7.2 v
Ø Supporting Web VPN
Ø Supporting Transparent Firewall, Security Context and
Modular Policy
Ø 64 MB RAM
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Answer / shankar
PIX works with PIX OS,ASA works with cisco IOS(7.2.2)
both are stateful firewalls only.by default PIX support
stateful inspection,but ASA needs CSC-SSM Module to support .
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