Cisco Pix 501 firewall - great for small offices or cisco students

[Paul]

I have a Cisco Pix 501 Firewall its good for a small office or cisco students want to mess around w/... i'm asking $50

The Cisco PIX 501 is a compact, ready-to-use security appliance that delivers enterprise-class security for small offices and enterprise teleworker environments.
The PIX 501 includes an integrated 4-port Fast Ethernet (10/100) switch and a Fast Ethernet (10/100) interface. Ideal for securing high-speed broadband environments, the Cisco PIX 501 delivers up to 60 Mbps of firewall throughput, 3 Mbps of Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) VPN throughput, and 4.5 Mbps of Advanced Encryption Standard-128 (AES) VPN throughput.

[Allshow97]

Not a bad deal. The 501 is a decent little unit. We actually used it in a production environment shortly for a company of roughly 500+ employees until we got our 515Es back up.

Also has the ability to tie in with several content filtering servers - we had ours tied to Websense.

[Paul]

Not a bad deal. The 501 is a decent little unit. We actually used it in a production environment shortly for a company of roughly 500+ employees until we got our 515Es back up.

Also has the ability to tie in with several content filtering servers - we had ours tied to Websense.

ya its a good unit i upgraded our company to 4 linksys(cisco) routers to segregate traffic. we ran a large ecommerce b2b site on it but we started running into bandwidth issues w/ the amount of internal/external traffic it was overloaded.

[green91]

Bump for a nice soho unit. Pretty much any cisco unit can be used with websense as long as youve got the ability to modify the ip routing table (aka anything with cisco ios lol). Ive used cisco routers & switches for years with great success and reliability.

I do prefer to setup vlans within my catalyst switches rather than using separate units though. But managed switches cost a lot more up front.

[Paul]

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