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Cisco ASA Firewall with PPPoE (Configuration Example on 5505)

A Cisco ASA Firewall is ideal for Broadband access connectivity to the Internet since it provides state of the art and solid network security protection. Especially for small business or home use, the ASA 5505 model is ideal for broadband ADSL access connectivity. Some ISPs provide Point to Point over Ethernet access, which is abbreviated […]

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Allowing Microsoft PPTP through Cisco ASA (PPTP Passthrough)

The Microsoft Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is used to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) between a PPTP client and server. It is used for remote access from roaming users to connect back to their corporate network over the Internet. A PPTP client connects and authenticates to the PPTP server which assigns an […]

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Configuring site-to-site IPSEC VPN on ASA using IKEv2

The scenario of configuring site-to-site VPN between two Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances is often used by companies that have more than one geographical location sharing the same resources, documents, servers, etc. The Cisco ASA is often used as VPN terminator, supporting a variety of VPN types and protocols. In this tutorial, we are going to […]

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How to Configure OSPF on Cisco ASA Firewall (Example Config and Troubleshooting)

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is quite a versatile device integrating application-aware firewall, SSL and IPsec VPN, intrusion prevention system (IPS), antivirus, antispam, antiphishing, and web filtering services. Cisco ASA also supports routing protocols such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), and last but not least, Open Shortest Path First […]

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Ping TCP Command on Cisco ASA – Great Troubleshooting Tool

The “ping” command has been the “de facto” troubleshooting protocol used mainly for testing connectivity and communication between two hosts. As we all know, the ping command sends “ICMP” packets to the other end and waits for ICMP reply packets to come back. From ASA 8.4(1) and later, Cisco introduced an enhanced version of the […]

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How to Configure SNMP on Cisco ASA 5500 Firewall

SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol. Up to ASA software 8.1, the SNMP version supported was v1 and v2c. The newest ASA software 8.2 supports also SNMP v3 which is the most secure snmp protocol version. The ASA works as an SNMP server (or agent), so you need also a Network Management System (NMS) […]

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How to Configure VLAN subinterfaces on Cisco ASA 5500 Firewall

One of the advantages of the Cisco ASA firewall is that you can configure multiple virtual interfaces (subinterfaces) on the same physical interface, thus extending the number of security zones (firewall “legs”) on your network.  Each subinterface must belong to a different Layer2 VLAN, with a separate Layer3 subnet. There are limits on the number of […]

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How to configure DHCP Relay on Cisco ASA Firewall

The ASA 5500 and 5500-X series firewall can work as DHCP relay agent which means that it receives DHCP requests from clients on one interface and forwards the requests to a DHCP server on another interface. Usually the DHCP server is located in the same layer 3 subnet with its clients. There are situations however […]

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Permitting Traffic to Enter and Exit the Same Interface on Cisco ASA

With the older Cisco PIX firewall appliances, there was no way for traffic to enter a specific interface and then exit back from the same interface again. With the new Cisco ASA models, this is also not supported by default, but you can enable this functionality with the same-security-traffic permit intra-interface command. The schematic above […]

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Cisco ASA Policy Based Routing (PBR) Configuration

Policy Based Routing (PBR) is a feature that has been supported on Cisco Routers for ages. However, Cisco ASA firewalls didn’t support this until version 9.4.1 and later. Finally Cisco acknowledged the usefulness of PBR on firewall devices and has implemented this on ASA as well. In this article I will show you how to […]

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Cisco ASA 5506-X Configuration Tutorial – Guide

Throughout my professional career in networking I was lucky to work with all Cisco firewall models and therefore I have experienced the “evolution” of every firewall product developed by Cisco. For the SMB/SOHO market, Cisco’s initial offering was the PIX 501, followed by the successful Cisco ASA 5505. The latter came to an End-of-Sale in […]

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Cisco ASA Firewall Commands – Cheat Sheet

In this post I have gathered the most useful Cisco ASA Firewall Commands and created a Cheat Sheet list that you can download also as PDF at the end of the article. I have been working with Cisco firewalls since 2000 where we had the legacy PIX models before the introduction of the ASA 5500 […]

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Configuration of Cisco ASA for ASDM Access

I have created the following video on youtube a few months ago and thought about embedding the video here as well. It is about configuring the Cisco ASA in order to install the ASDM image (Adaptive Security Device Manager) and hence be able to manage the device with the graphical ASDM GUI. The video shows […]

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