A) No B) No It appears that someone in mgmt. has made a layer 8 (political) decision to migrate your firewall since the PIX does not support features you are currently using and yet the decision has already been made.
At this point, I would recommend that you put together a brief presentation (no more than 4 slides) listing the features that you will lose, why they are important and how much it will cost to implement those features on extra hardware. Make sure your mgmt. signs off _in writing_ that they are aware of the functionality that you are losing if they insist on migrating and refuse to buy additional hardware. Save the written sign off for later CYA use. Regards, Kent At 02:39 AM 12/11/2002 +0000, eric nguyen wrote: >My company is looking to migrate from CheckPoint over to Pix Firewall in the >next > >couple of months and I have been assigned to this project. I have questions >about > >Pix firewalls. We are a small company, less than 50 people. > >a) Does pix firewall support QOS, traffic shaping or traffic >prioritization? The > >checkpoint firewall we are using has a feature called "flood-gate" that can > >prioritize both inbound and outbound traffic. We would like to have this >feature > >in Pix firewall as well. > >b) Does pix support http load balancing? Checkpoint has a feature that > >supports http load-balancing for inbound traffic. We need this feature to >load > >balance our web servers. I would like to have this feature in pix as well. >We > >don't have the budget for dedicated load-balancer such as Cisco CSS. Open > >freeware is out of the question, will not fly pass management. > >Can pix do those things above without additional hardware? > >Regards, > >Eric > > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=58999&t=58957 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
