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.
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Running Commands on a Standby ASA from the Active
I was exploring commands on the ASA a while back and discovered that you can run commands on the standby unit from the active.
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…
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…
More ASA Objects and Object-groups
Object-groups. God, I love them (most of the time).
ASA 8.3.1 – Smart Tunnel and NAT Changes
I’ve got 8.3.1 on my home 5505 and I’m not afraid to use it.
Using SPF Records To Build Objects
My biggest complain about modern firewalls is their lack of the ability to create rules based on URLs or HTTP streams; you have to open access between IP addresses. Yes, I know there are other means to do that, but…
Object Groups in the ASA/FWSM/PIX
I can’t believe I haven’t talked about object-groups yet. I had a whole other blog entry written up, and, when I went to link things over, I realized I couldn’t find an intro to it. Here it goes. Welcome to…
ASA and Proxy ARP
Wow. A new entry. Everyone sit down before you pass out. I’ve got a real-world example for you today. We have an ASA 5540 installed at a business unit with interfaces in multiple networks, including one containing the production servers…
Port Forwarding on the ASA/FWSM/PIX
Here’s a simple one since I haven’t updated in a while. I have my ASA 5505 at home and want to forward TCP/80 traffic to my public IP to my webserver at 10.10.10.10. There are two steps here — forward…