PIXOS 6.3 and Bridging?

[picketfence]

Hello,

When chatting with a Cisco employee at a party a couple weeks ago, he mentioned that PIXOS 6.3 (supposedly) does transparent bridging. This would be greatly beneficial in that you could firewall a network without your device having to have an IP address. There are also other specific situations I could think of in which this would be beneficial. My question is -- is this possible yet? If not possible yet, is it something planned for?

Thanks,

Ben

[scoclayton · Accepted solution]

Ben,

Currently, it is not possible to configure the PIX as a transparent firewall. However, this is a feature we are looking at now. Release 2.1 of the Firewall Services Module will have this feature but so far, there has been no committment from the appliance team.

Scott

[picketfence]

Scott,

Thanks. If it's possible to let them know we are interested (we buy about 50 devices a year from ya'll), please do so. That feature would help us innumerably, especially if shunning could be performed along with the bridging.

Thanks again,

Ben