Getting a new firewall
My home office firewall just died and looks like never coming back
I'm running off a UK broadband cable connection. I've just bought a Dlink DI-604 just to make sure I can get back on the net ASAP
I can get one of the following:
CISCO PIX 501 3DES Bundle (Chassis, SW, 10 Users, 3DES)
I thought I could put the DI-604 onto the cable modem and then untrusted users onto the DI-604, and isolate the development computers with the CISCO firewall for added security, so the WAN on the CISCO will plug into the LAN on the Dlink, and the WAN on the dlink into the broadband modem.
1. Any reason why this setup wouldn't work ?
2. Any reasons not to use a CISCO PIX in this configuration ?
thanks
Paul
I'm running off a UK broadband cable connection. I've just bought a Dlink DI-604 just to make sure I can get back on the net ASAP
I can get one of the following:
CISCO PIX 501 3DES Bundle (Chassis, SW, 10 Users, 3DES)
I thought I could put the DI-604 onto the cable modem and then untrusted users onto the DI-604, and isolate the development computers with the CISCO firewall for added security, so the WAN on the CISCO will plug into the LAN on the Dlink, and the WAN on the dlink into the broadband modem.
1. Any reason why this setup wouldn't work ?
2. Any reasons not to use a CISCO PIX in this configuration ?
thanks
Paul
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Marvellous. Thanks for your help. Splitting points..
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And now its all working... didn't even need to RTFM !! thanks
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I know the cisco inside the network is a bit extreme but I have computers the kids use, and I have sales people coming in now and again with all sorts of cr*p on their laptops. In addition if one or the other goes phut again I have a backup. Furthermore we VPN into clients networks quite a bit, so that can have a dedicated PC outside the cisco too.
One thing, I think the dlink will be a 192.168 address, does that cause any problems if the cisco people are on 10. and the dlinks on 192. ?.
Also more questions,
3. will the cisco act as a dhcp server and
4. would I need to put an windows server domain controller box inside the network.
Sorry for being so dumb at networking ! 500 points is a lot of beer money though !