I use Google Analytics to track the 2 or 3 hits I get a day, and sometimes I see some interesting search terms. Yesterday, some googled up the term “does the ASA 5505 run HSRP”; I think that deserves a short article. The ASA and PIX firewalls don’t actually run any of the usual...
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DHCP on the ASA 5505
Let’s keep going with our example setup on the ASA 5505 and set up DHCP on this guy. You can set it up to either forward (relay) DHCP requests to a DHCP server somewhere or have it be the DHCP server. Let’s do it. To set up DHCP forwarding, you have to configure where...
Setting Up VLANs on an ASA 5505
I’ve had my ASA 5505 in place at home on my Comcast cable for a few weeks now, and, let me tell you, this thing rocks. I did, however, have a few problems finding a clear answer on how I could set up my VLANs. It turns out that the base license on the...
Default Route via DHCP on an ASA 5505
I finally got my ASA 5505 up and running at the house, but I ran into a little problem — the box wouldn’t add the DHCP-provided default route into its routing table. That one threw me for a loop since the box is made for SOHOs, but it makes sense in some corporate, lazy...
NAT on a PIX/ASA
NATting sucks and can be confusing. I’m sure everyone agrees to that, but you have to use it at some times. In a PIX/ASA, it’s easy to configure a simple setup, but can be super-complicated in larger networks. In a simple lab, we have set up an ASA with inside and outside interfaces, with...
Commenting Access-lists
There’s a very-overlooked feature of access-lists — the remark. Yes, this is very basic, but it’s worth mentioning, as it has saved me anguish time and time again. I use remarks to document each line of an ACL (on IOS, PIX, FWSM, ASA, etc.) so that when I go back later, I actually know...
Can’t Login to Your ASA via SSH or Telnet?
I deployed a Cisco ASA at a location and couldn’t get logged in via SSH. I would get prompted, but, no matter what username/password I put in, it would just reject me. After some digging, it turns out that I forgot this command. aaa authentication ssh console LOCAL When I put this in, it...
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