| | Cisco Security Appliance Command Line Configuration Guide, Version 7.0 - Firewall Mode Overview [Cisco ASA 5500 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22) |
 | | In routed mode, the security appliance is considered to be a router hop in the network. |
 | | In transparent mode, the security appliance acts like a "bump in the wire," or a "stealth firewall," and is not a router hop. |
 | | For multiple context mode, the security appliance first classifies the packet according to either a unique interface or a unique destination address associated with a context; the destination address is associated by matching an address translation in a context. |
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