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Set up a Cisco PIX firewall

Set up a Cisco PIX firewall

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Set up a Cisco PIX firewall

- [Instructor] Cisco provides a range of popular home and business-grade firewalls, built using a propriety Cisco operating system known as IOS. This provides a much more powerful firewall and solution to the built-in Windows and Linux firewalls, so we'll take a first look at how to access and configure them. I'm using a Cisco PIX firewall, which despite being somewhat long in the tooth, is still a useful device for becoming familiar with IOS configuration and a low-cost way of creating secure enclaves in a home network. It has a serial console port, a one port, and an integrated four port ethernet switch. I'll be connecting this to my local network switch in order to establish a secure subnet. I've connected to the PIX using a USB-to-serial adaptor into the RS-232 console port, and an ethernet cable from my local network switch to the PIX1 port. I'll check the serial configuration using device manager. When I open the Ports entry, I can see the ATEN adaptor on COM3. I'll now connect…

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