Re: transparent and routed firewalls

Thanks for clarification, but dont want to compare ASA with sonic wall.

Asa can be compared with junipers firewalls but not with sonicwall (my
opinion ) .

Can you imagine this buggy piece of crap drops most of my genuine traffic
sensing them as attack traffic that too after disabling IPS service for
which our company paid

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Joseph L. Brunner
<joe_at_affirmedsystems.com>wrote:

> "how they want it to behave"
>
> Who is the expert? Would you tell your doctor how you want him to save
> your child's life who came in with leukemia?
>
> If you put the ASA into "bitw" mode (bump in the wire) or transparent mode,
> you stop if from effectively doing many things they want it to do in the
> future like terminating vpn traffic and running routing protocols. So
again,
> while they may want something, they may not be knowledgeable enough to make
> a determination.
>
> Perhaps you should look at Sonic wall - this appliance can do both at once,
> where Cisco ASA does not.
>
> -Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> imran ali
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 6:10 PM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: transparent and routed firewalls
>
> hi all,
>
> i have two asa 5520 , i need to setup active standby failover between them
>
> however thier is a starnge requirement that my upper management wants me to
> implement .
>
> They wnat to firewall to behave as a transparent mode for one DMZ and for
> other they want to run in routed mode.
>
> is it possible ...any weird combintion fo virtuliastion can fulfill the
> requirment ?
>
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