Firewall Wizards: Pix admin tools

[Adam Lang <thalen () cs pdx edu>]

Interesting.  My perspective?  I got a Pix 501 and set it up with the 
web-based tools.  Took me about three hours, and I'd never set up or 
seen a firewall more complicated than the built-in one that comes with 
MacOS X.  DHCP setup was fine (I changed it to 192.168.3.x) as was 
incoming VPN.  Enabling our users inside the firewall to use a VPN at a 
remote site was a little more difficult... my boss did that, after 
messing around on the web with google for a bit.  The only difficulty 
that I had with the program, in fact, was that it didn't run on my Mac 
with Safari, IE, or Netscape... until MacOS X 10.3 came out.  Now even 
that is fine.
The only other thing I had a question about was something I didn't 
think you could do anyway... so I asked how to do it on this list, and 
lo and behold, you can't.  (I got over 40 responses... thank you all, 
but responding to all of them was rather more than I could budget time 
for. :)
I used command line stuff on a cisco terminal about 10 years ago, but 
just so that I could get kermit downloads running. (It was fun, 
dialling in at 8,1,n and changing to 7,2,e from the modem itself.  
Change the remote to 7,1,n, then change the local.  Change the remote 
to 7, 2, n, then change the local.  Change the remote to 7, 2, e, then 
change the local.  X-, Y-, and Z-modem wouldn't work because the cisco 
stripped some high bits.)  Other than that, my command lines have been 
UNIX, DOS, MPW, and a couple of Netopia routers.
Just another data point.

--Adam Lang

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