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Configuring an Active/Passive ASA Pair

A buddy asked for some help on configuring a pair of ASAs in active/passive mode, and, by pure coincidence, my newest project is to set up the same. I’ve done it many time, but it’s one of those things that you don’t really do every day

Lessons Learned from a Bad Day

I had a really, really bad day this past Tuesday. I mean, a really bad day. I guess I should have seen it coming since the last #stabbytuesday was uneventful. Here's what said cosmos had in for me and the lessons I took away. Most of these are

Stubby Post - A Story on VPN Hardware Acceleration

We use a hosted application that requires IPSec tunnels to the provider from different properties across the country. The ones in the lower 48 perform adequately, but the new one in Alaska is absolutely horrible. The RTT from the continental US sites was around 80ms, but the same from the

Stubby Post - Changes to CCNA Voice, CCVP, and CCSP

I don't usually cover news from Cisco, but they've changed some certification stuff around again, and I thought I would bring it up. This time they've changed the CCNA Voice, CCVP, and CCSP, so, if you've on those tracks, be careful what

SLA Monitoring on the PIX/ASA

We're working on an data center design for a customer, and they've dropped in two ISP links – each with it's own managed router and public IP space off one of the Ethernet interfaces. The idea is that they want to use the Internet links

CME Exercise #1 Solution

Here's my solution to the exercise I posed last week. Let's see if we can get this right. I'm going to assume you know how to give a router an IP address. If you don't, let me know and I'll

CME Exercise #1

I tried something like this earlier this year with STP. It got rave reviews (from my mother), so I figured I try it again. Below is a list of requirements for configuring a router as a call processor. In a lab or in your head, configure the router to support