This section contains info on understanding, setting up, and maintaining a Cisco PIX firewall.

• Understanding the basics of a PIX firewall. A brief note on how to add hosts to the backside of a PIX, and how to make other minor changes to the PIX.
• Basic Pix Config with notes.  How to setup interfaces, and nat statements.
  
• Reset Password, and upgrade: How to reset the password, and upgrade the OS at the same time
  
• Enabling SSH and VPN Services. Steps to get the SSH daemon working on the pix, and also how to configure the pix to act as a vpn server.
• DHCP Server on a Pix: How to enable your firewall to also serve out IP addresses via DHCP.
  
• Enabling a VPN between two Pixes. Writeup and examples for what you need to do to enable an ipsec vpn between PIX firewalls.
• PIX Manuals. All the Manuals for all the OPS versions on the PIX. (Figure what version you are running before looking here).
• Cisco's Software Center for the PIX All the new IOS versions for the PIX. Makes you happy to have a support contract.

• Fresh, out of the box PIX config (5.3.1). This is for Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Version 5.3(1)
• Fresh, out of the box PIX config (4.4.5). This is for Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Version 4.4(5)