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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

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

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