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From: Julien Pham on 19 Jan 2006 08:19
Hi,

I'm wondering how I can open some ports in my cisco pix 501, so I can use
the server as a mail server. Anybody has an idea ?

Thanks


From: Johhny on 19 Jan 2006 08:34
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a00800b6e1a.shtml

From: Julien Pham on 19 Jan 2006 10:10

"Johhny" <exter_c(a)hotmail.com> a ?crit dans le message de news:
1137677650.012469.284000(a)o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a00800b6e1a.shtml
>

Thanks, I'll try to do with it. I hate those cisco products, they are sooo
hard to configure :) I would like a graphical interface to configure it. I
heard it is possible to have one, but I didn't understand how to configure
it though...


From: Walter Roberson on 19 Jan 2006 13:19
In article <43cfac6e$0$10663$626a54ce(a)news.free.fr>,
Julien Pham <privacy(a)invalid.net> wrote:

>Thanks, I'll try to do with it. I hate those cisco products, they are sooo
>hard to configure :) I would like a graphical interface to configure it. I
>heard it is possible to have one, but I didn't understand how to configure
>it though...

There is indeed a graphics interface for the PIX 501; if I recall
properly it comes pre-installed on new 501s. You can find
the documentaton at
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/pix/pdm/v_30/pdm_ig/index.htm


I would, though, issue two cautions:

1) There are parts of the PDM that are not intuitive, and for which
really the only way to make sense of them is to understand how the
underlying feature works at the command line level. This is particularily
the case for the task you were asking about, of configuring port
forwarding.

2) If you encounter questions or difficulties with your PIX
configuration and ask in newsgroups about how to configure something or
what something means, then in practice posters are only occasionally
willing to write down the entire sequence of menu selections,
description of which field to use, which drop box value, and so on.

Thus, if you think you might be asking for assistance on the
newsgroups, you should take the time to at least learn how to
enter commands at the command line, and how to list the current
configuration in order to post it, and you should expect that
the answers will be in command-line configuration format.

I am not saying "Don't use the GUI": I'm saying that historically
posters are seldom willing to give assistance in terms of how
you would achieve the desired effect with the GUI, so you need
enough about the CLI to be able to converse with them.

Sorry, but talking about GUI's takes too long! If I can give two
lines of text commands that will solve the problem, then I'm not
often going to be willing to describe the 15 step process to get
the GUI to do the same thing.


By the way, for future information: most PIX questions go to
comp.dcom.sys.cisco rather than comp.security.firewalls .
There is a fair bit of overlap of skills and concepts between
the PIX OS ("Finesse") and Cisco's IOS (for their switches and
routers), so you have a much wider pool of qualified people to
draw upon in comp.dcom.sys.cisco than in comp.security.firewalls .
From: Julien Pham on 20 Jan 2006 02:24
Sure, sure, thanks for your anwser.
At home I have a netgear firewall, and it is so easy to configure ports, I
just have to enter port number, and the IP address it has to be redirected
to, and click on "apply" ;) With cisco all is so hard.

I know how to enter commands in the term, but I just try to figure out what
is the exact command to use... Because if I cannot configure our firewall,
then our network is not really secure. CISCO likes hard configuration stuff
because then people HAVE to buy their configuration lessons ;)


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