Re: Thoughts on the new Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls

[Tichomir Kotek <tichomir.kotek () lynx sk>]

Chris Byrd wrote:
> I just spoke with a Cisco sales rep about this.  According to him, the
> ASA 5500 is running the same OS as the latest Pix FWs (7.0), with the
> other stuff bolted on top.  It is also running the same ASICs as their
> IPS devices.  That does make me feel a *little* better about this, but
> I do still need to eval one in person.

actually IDS/IPS is handled in separate module, where you can "route"
traffic flows for inspection, so at least this do not overload central CPU.

tk
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