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 +, 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
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