Tunneling two remote PIX firewalls using internet.

[mabdulcisco123]

Hi, Friends

I want your suggesion on PIX 515E with IOS version -7 ,How is the perfomance, and reliablity . Please suggest me.

[dhananjoy chowdhury]

We are using 7.2 IOS and it works fine.

Performance wise it is ok.

But when it comes to reliability you have to work on the following:

- Firewalls in Failover (HA), so that even if the primary FW fails, the vpn tunnel works via the backup FW.

- Have a backup internet link, so that if primary link goes down the tunnel on the backup link works.

[Farrukh Haroon]

Yes its (usaully) reliable, just make sure you upgrade to the latest minor release in your train like 7.2(4) etc.

Regards

Farrukh