Firewall Appliance Software for PIX 500 and ASA 5500
Cisco Firewall Appliance provides chip accouterments and software carrying abounding stateful firewall protection
and VPN capabilities. It provides all-embracing packet analysis and flow-specific monitoring, bigger network
integration, resiliency, and scalability. Unlike archetypal CPU-intensive proxy servers, the Cisco Firewall Software
uses a non-UNIX secure, real-time, anchored system.
Both accessories (PIX 500 and ASA 5500 series) are based on the industry-leading Cisco Firewall Software
currently on adaptation 8.0 as of this writing. The majority of the functions are the aforementioned on both appliances, with
the barring that in allegory to the PIX 500 series, the ASA 5500 alternation has the added abutment of SSL
VPN technology (WebVPN), VPN Load Balancing, the Security Services Bore (SSM)—IPS module, Compact
Flash (CF) agenda support, and Aux anchorage support.
Note
PIX 501 and 506E models do not abutment the new firewall software versions. They are able of running
up to adaptation 6.3 only.