The home-built Pix strikes me as being more trouble and expense than it is worth. I read about someone who made one, and he had to use an expensive flash card that cost nearly as much as a base-model Pix. The home-built Pix has certain obvious legal deficiencies, and, it is safe to say, could never be resold to someone who might want to run it in a production network.
I'm probably missing something here, but if anyone wants a Pix, there are some shockingly cheap base models that people can buy new from a Cisco reseller (around 400-600 dollars, I seem to remember). I imagine these may lack some functionality that the more expensive Pixes might have, but at least people wouldn't have to go on to bulletin boards asking for license/code numbers to use to make their firewall work. And selling your real Pix or using it a production network would be a possibility. If you want to build a firewall for the fun of building a firewall, it makes more sense to go the Linux/Unix route. Of course, I'm working on R&S, not Security, so there may be some great advantage to these homebuilt Pixes (over the retail Cisco Pix base models) that I am unaware of. ""T Christn"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > What about IDE Flash? Is it possible to use that for a home-built PIX? > Easy to obtain Compact Flash cards and buy adapters to connect to IDE. This > works for a Linux firewall: > > http://chinese-watercolor.com/LRP/ > > > Regardless, I would like to get those instructions from you Mike. > > Thx > > tchristn Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=44354&t=18335 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
