I just got through a big weekend. We upgraded our main production firewall, but the process had a few twists.
RichardF commented on an article I wrote last November and mentioned the prompt command in the ASA. I never set aside any time to research it, but I finally took the time today while waiting for a maintenance window.
I was exploring commands on the ASA a while back and discovered that you can run commands on the standby unit from the active.
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 (unless you’re a VAR or something). These things always […]
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 in an active-passive setup without getting their own IP addresses […]
Object-groups. God, I love them (most of the time).
I’ve got 8.3.1 on my home 5505 and I’m not afraid to use it.