Does any one have any experience, (good / bad) with a Cisco Pix 501, my goal
is to roll out a VPN solution using this box, how will it integrate with
Windows 2003 Standard? What do I have to turn on so a client off site, can
drill the VPN tunnel and log into the domain and get their roaming profile
an access to all shares or whatever else is in the profile? Can this be
done?

Any advice is welcome, or any white paper is welcome.

Bill

Hi Bill. I have a number of Cisco Routers and Firewalls including the Pix
and have been really happy with them. In terms of your requirements the Pix
will accommodate the VPN and should integrate with Win2k3 (I haven't any
experience of setting this up, but it is possible with the Cisco VPN
client). The Cisco VPN client can be configured to load and connect
pre-login so that when the user carries out the normal Windows logon, they
are already connected to the remote network for authentication etc.

Cisco products for the most part use IOS which is command line driven. Most
products have a basic web interface, with the Pix range and the Aironet
range generally being better than the web interface provided on the routers.
Ideally you get the most flexibility using the command line to configure the
Pix, but if you have no experience with Cisco's IOS then it could take some
time before you would be fully comfortable with it. The only issue
therefore of using the Pix products is the learning curve.

--
Hth,
Stuart Mackie [MCP, MSP]
www.stu.uk.com


"Bill Lehman" <Bill_Lehman_fumc@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Thanks Stuart,
Do you know where you found the documentation on the ISO? Is there a
particular trusted source? Or should I go straight to Cisco?

On 12/10/04 6:23 PM, in article OMmni9w3EHA.3452@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
"Stuart Mackie [MCP, MSP]" <newsgroups@--REMOVE_THIS-NO_SPAM--stu.uk.com>
wrote:

Hi Bill. Cisco provides quite a good variety of example configurations
online. The link below is to the PIX 500 Series configurations:


--
Hth,
Stuart Mackie [MCP, MSP]
www.stu.uk.com


"Bill Lehman" <Bill_Lehman_fumc@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Oops, sent too early

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/...ples_list.html

Learning IOS will take you some time and there also a wide variety of
configuration options.

To start with, you should be able to use the web interface to get everything
up and running, including the VPN settings. Then as you become more
comfortable with the command line, altering the configuration will be
easier. There is also another set of configuration documents available once
you get your user account on cisco.com

--
Hth,
Stuart Mackie [MCP, MSP]
www.stu.uk.com


"Bill Lehman" <Bill_Lehman_fumc@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Thanks again.



On 12/12/04 1:02 PM, in article OzCRvTH4EHA.1296@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl,
"Stuart Mackie [MCP, MSP]" <newsgroups@--REMOVE_THIS-NO_SPAM--stu.uk.com>
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