Chapter 19. Troubleshooting Firewall MC

Firewall MC is a software component that runs on Common Services to provide management for PIX firewall and FWSM configuration. As of writing this book, the latest version of PIX Firewall is Version 7.0, for which the Firewall MC is not developed. Hence, the discussion of this chapter is on Firewall MC Version 1.3.x on the Windows platform, which is used to manage PIX firewall Version 6.3.x and earlier, and FWSM. However, discussion in this chapter on Firewall MC can be used for configuring and troubleshooting of the new version of Firewall MC as well, which will support PIX Version 7.0. with some exceptions.