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Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
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Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module (FWSM)

by Ray CCIE No. 7050 Blair, Arvind CCIE No. 7016 Durai
August 2008
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
10h 42m
English
Cisco Press
Content preview from Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module (FWSM)

Chapter 7 Configuring the FWSM

This chapter takes you through the steps needed to configure the Firewall Services Module (FWSM). This chapter also covers the different FWSM mode configurations: routed, transparent, single context, and multiple contexts.

The FWSM is an inline module in the switch chassis. To configure the FWSM, switch configuration is a necessity because it relates the switch to the FWSM. The configuration of FWSM covers the details of firewall rules, policy, redundancy, and so on.

The configuration of the FWSM is a two-fold process:

Step 1

Configure the FWSM in the switch.

Step 2

Configure the FWSM for security rules.

The sections that follow describe this two-fold process in greater detail.

Configuring FWSM in the Switch

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