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Build a Cisco PIX for 800 Australian Dollars

Posted by timothy on from the but-what-about-real-money dept.

tallguy_wt writes: "Why fork out thousands of dollars to learn Cisco's PIX firewalling product when you can build your own for under 800 Australian Dollars, as shown in this article by Routermonkey."

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  1. Cisco's (unofficial) position by knick · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Details on how to do this surfaced on some cisco study boards 12-18 months ago. Most of the people on the board were interested in this to be able to add a Pix to thier home study lab. Groupstudy had a very long thread on this. They were dubbed the 'FrankenPix'

    Cisco is very well represented on the board, and they never said a word to anybody about not doing this, and sort of allowed it to happen.

    On the other hand, when FrankenPix's started appearing on eBay, they cracked down, hard and quick. But, to this day, they still haven't said anything during the discussions o the cisco study boards.

    My view on this is they really don't care if people build FrankenPix's for home study, after all, that's just going to help sell more Pix in the long run. (Checkpoint, afterall, will gladly give you 30-day trail licenses for FireWall-1 for home study) But, if you try to build and sell these, they WILL get you. (And honestly, if you want to use these boxes in a professional enviorment for day-to-day usage, you are asking for trouble.)

    --dirt

  2. Stupid question ... by AftanGustur · · Score: 5, Interesting


    I guess there is a lot of people who have been playing with ipfw, iptables, ipchains etc ...
    And would realy, sincerely, like to know:

    What can I do with a Cisco PIX that I can't do with Linux and IPTables ?

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    echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc