Chapter 13. Services

Introduction

In addition to performing its traditional firewall functions such as filtering traffic, the PIX firewall can also provide a variety of other services. These services are a convenient way to get added value from your firewall; rather than having to set up separate servers and applications to deliver these servers to your network, the firewall becomes an all-in-one appliance.

DHCP Functionality

DHCP is a convenient method of providing required configuration parameters to network nodes, such as IP address, default ...

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