I am researching the requirements to configure a pix 515E connected to
a Cisco 2950 switch. I am researching the requirements to enable VLANS
between these two devices. What do I need to look for a and what kind
of problems could be encountered?

Thanks
ICEMAN

You may wish to investigate Cisco 2950 Technical Docs:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps628/tsd_pr oducts_support_series_home.html

as well as PIX

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/tsd_pr oducts_support_series_home.html

and PIX Software

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2120/tsd_pr oducts_support_series_home.html

Sincerely,

Brad Reese on Cisco
Network World Magazine Cisco Subnet
http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/

On Mar 5, 2:57 pm, vlpres... [at] yahoo.com wrote:
> I am researching the requirements to configure a pix 515E connected to
> a Cisco 2950 switch. I am researching the requirements to enable VLANS
> between these two devices. What do I need to look for a and what kind
> of problems could be encountered?
>
> Thanks
> ICEMAN

Could you possibly give some more details? It should not be a problem
configuring these 2 devices to work together.

In article <1173135420.350515.276850 [at] 64g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>,
<vlpresher [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
>I am researching the requirements to configure a pix 515E connected to
>a Cisco 2950 switch. I am researching the requirements to enable VLANS
>between these two devices. What do I need to look for a and what kind
>of problems could be encountered?

The PIX 515E will require PIX 6.3(1) or later software release.
The 2950 should be usable with any IOS that has been supported for it.

Was there something more specific you were looking for?
e.g., do you need to know things such as that you won't be able
to terminate a VPN connection on the VLAN interface on the PIX?

On Mar 5, 5:57 pm, vlpres... [at] yahoo.com wrote:
> I am researching the requirements to configure a pix 515E connected to
> a Cisco 2950 switch. I am researching the requirements to enable VLANS
> between these two devices. What do I need to look for a and what kind
> of problems could be encountered?
>
> Thanks
> ICEMAN

When VLANs are used on a switch you have to setup a router. VLANs will
create two different networks that can't talk to each other with out a
router. You will get "Network destination unreachable" error with
ping, if you don't setup a router.

In article <1173637318.771968.113960 [at] j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>,
Hexalon <Hexalon [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mar 5, 5:57 pm, vlpres... [at] yahoo.com wrote:
>> I am researching the requirements to configure a pix 515E connected to
>> a Cisco 2950 switch. I am researching the requirements to enable VLANS
>> between these two devices. What do I need to look for a and what kind
>> of problems could be encountered?

>When VLANs are used on a switch you have to setup a router. VLANs will
>create two different networks that can't talk to each other with out a
>router. You will get "Network destination unreachable" error with
>ping, if you don't setup a router.

The PIX 515E running PIX 6.3(1) or later software is able to route
packets between 802.1Q VLANs. You do not need to add a seperate "router".