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Thanks for the feedback everyone! I will give this a try this week!
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Thanks for the feedback everyone! I will give this a try this week!

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I have usable 5 public IPs lets say 17.18.1.15-17.18.1.20 from my ISP.<br />
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I currently have an ethernet cable connecting my single Cisco firewall to my ISP's router.<br />
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Is it possible for me to plug the ISP router into a switch and then have 2 firewalls also plugged into other ports on the switch and configure one firewall to use part of the public IP range and the other firewall to use the other half?<br />
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I have heard this is possible but have never tried. Thanks.
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I have usable 5 public IPs lets say 17.18.1.15-17.18.1.20 from my ISP.

I currently have an ethernet cable connecting my single Cisco firewall to my ISP's router.

Is it possible for me to plug the ISP router into a switch and then have 2 firewalls also plugged into other ports on the switch and configure one firewall to use part of the public IP range and the other firewall to use the other half?

I have heard this is possible but have never tried. Thanks.

I have 5 public IP addresses from my ISP can I have two firewalls using them?

Hardware-based firewalls provide more sophisticated protection for inbound and outbound traffic than the simple Windows software firewall or the basic NAT firewalls found in routers. These devices implement techniques such as stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection, and content filtering; and may include built-in antivirus and anti-malware protection.

Hardware Firewalls

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.

Routers

Cisco PIX is a dedicated hardware firewall appliance; the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is a firewall and anti-malware security appliance that provides unified threat management and protection the PIX does not. Other Cisco devices and systems include routers, switches, storage networking, wireless and the software and hardware for PIX Firewall Manager (PFM), PIX Device Manager (PDM) and Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM).