I've just purchases a Cisco PIX 501 firewall appliance and am looking for
any examples of using the GUI PDM to configure some simple access into a
simple network of servers; you know - click here, click there, etc. I have
no knowledge of Cisco's language.

I've spent about 8 hours looking through Cisco's documentation and can only
find CLI examples and that's not what I'm looking for. I've contacted
Cisco's TAC and email support and have received no response. I've spent
about 4-5 hours trying different combinations if this and that, all to no
avail. This is my last option. :-(

I've changed from a Linux IPTABLES configuration, on a linux server, to this
device with the hopes of easing the management dramatically. So far, I
can't seem to track down any examples that show how to do something simple
like:

* Allow ssh in from 2 external IP addresses on port 4722 and route
it to the internal server using IP address 10.0.1.12.

Can anyone help. Thanks in advance,

Bill

You have to configure a few parameters via CLI to access the pix via
browser.
First you have to make a 'show version' to check the version of pix-os
and pdm. Then look for a line like 'http server enable', add 'http
[your ip] [mask] inside' and try to connect via http.

I'm sorry I didn't mention this, but I do have the device and PDM setup
properly and can access the PIX using PDM, telnet and ssh (internally) with
no problem. The device is running fine and internal people can get out fine
and nothing external can get in. :-)

It's just that I can't seem to find an example of how to configure a simple
rule (looking for external -> internal right now) using only the PDM.

Thanks in advance,

Bill

<emma@abacho.de> wrote in message
news:1a2beda1.0407210144.3a5d1d9e@posting.google.com...
> You have to configure a few parameters via CLI to access the pix via
> browser.
> First you have to make a 'show version' to check the version of pix-os
> and pdm. Then look for a line like 'http server enable', add 'http
> [your ip] [mask] inside' and try to connect via http.

"Bill H" <wphaskett@THISISMUNGEDatt.net> wrote in message
news:WLwLc.136425$%_6.125702@attbi_s01...
> I'm sorry I didn't mention this, but I do have the device and PDM setup
> properly and can access the PIX using PDM, telnet and ssh (internally)
with
> no problem. The device is running fine and internal people can get out
fine
> and nothing external can get in. :-)
>
> It's just that I can't seem to find an example of how to configure a
simple
> rule (looking for external -> internal right now) using only the PDM.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bill
>

Yeah, a wizard for this would be nice. Read the help in the PDM. It's not
bad. To me it sounds like you need to start by setting up NAT translations,
so start on that tab under Configure section. Once that is done you can
create the access rules.