users increasingly make use of a wide range of multimedia applications, many of which require special handling in a firewall environment. the pix firewall handles these without requiring client reconfiguration and without becoming a performance bottleneck. the specific multimedia applications supported by the pix firewall include the following:

    · realaudio

    · streamworks

    · cu-seeme

    · internet phone

    · irc

    · vxtreme

    · vdo live

    support for specific protocols can be disabled using access-lists if required.