Can Cisco Pix be used as a router and a firewall?

From: EdD (edd_at_mredd.co.uk)
Date: 10/17/05 

Date: 17 Oct 2005 04:29:40 -0700

Hi,

I am after a hardware filewall and a router and was wondering if I
could use a cisco Pix (probably 501) to route between 2 different
subnets or vlans and to also be a firewall between those 2 subnets or
vlans?

If not, does anyone have any suggestions for a cheap implementation
which I could use? Router needs to have 100 Mbit interfaces and the
firewall should preferably allow for VPN tunneling.

Cheers,

Edd

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