[c-nsp] traffic flow in 6500 switch with FWSM and IDSM

[Vikas Sharma]

Hi,

I have FWSM and IDSN-2 on 6500 switch. Since I am not a security guy I am
not able to visualize how traffic flow will take place in this situation. My
requirement is to secure internal traffic from external / DMZ traffic and
inspect malicious traffic. Can someone give me the logical picture how
packet will flow inside 6500 switch? whether it will first go to FWSM then
to MSFC or first to MSFC then firewall? I have vlan (SVIs) created on msfc
and these ips are default gateway for my internal traffic.

Any help is appreciated...

Regards
Vikas Sharma