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Any non-SOHO router with the security bundle should support firewall, VPN, and limited IDS functionality.<br />
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Configuration tasks are significantly different from the ASA, however.
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Any non-SOHO router with the security bundle should support firewall, VPN, and limited IDS functionality.

Configuration tasks are significantly different from the ASA, however.

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&lt;&lt;Configuration tasks are significantly different from the ASA, however.&gt;&gt;<br />
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what do you mean by that?<br />
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do you mean the commands you type are different, but they achieve the same objectives ?<br />
The router can be configured for security using SDM, but &nbsp;I am not sure what you will miss if you use a router as for instance a firewall or IDS using SDM, instead of going with ASA?<br />
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<<Configuration tasks are significantly different from the ASA, however.>>

what do you mean by that?

do you mean the commands you type are different, but they achieve the same objectives ?
The router can be configured for security using SDM, but  I am not sure what you will miss if you use a router as for instance a firewall or IDS using SDM, instead of going with ASA?

 


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I would like to know if I can use a router, to do the functions of ASA , IDS ? and also VPN.?<br />
if so which router series and IOS are able to do the similar functions.<br />
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thanks
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I would like to know if I can use a router, to do the functions of ASA , IDS ? and also VPN.?
if so which router series and IOS are able to do the similar functions.

thanks

Using a router for security

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.