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Cisco ASA Initial Setup from CLI
A fresh Cisco ASA out of the box is mostly empty. There is a default enable password, an unconfigured Management0/
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Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance, the stateful firewall platform that has anchored enterprise perimeters for two decades and is now being succeeded by Secure Firewall (FTD). Articles tagged ASA cover security levels, NAT 8.3+ and twice NAT, ACLs, AnyConnect SSL and IKEv2 VPN, site-to-site IPsec, failover, packet-tracer, hardening, and ASAv 9.x lab walkthroughs.
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Cisco ASA Object Groups: Network, Service, and Protocol
Object groups are the difference between an ACL you can read and one you cannot. Without them, an ACL that
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Cisco ASA Interfaces, Subinterfaces, and VLAN Trunks
The interface configuration on a Cisco ASA looks superficially like an IOS router, but two things are different and both
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Cisco ASA Routed Mode vs Transparent Mode
Cisco ASA can run in two firewall modes: routed mode, where the firewall is a Layer 3 hop with its
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Cisco ASA Common Outage Scenarios and Fixes
Every Cisco ASA that runs long enough hits a small set of repeatable failure modes: a NAT pool exhausting, an
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Cisco ASA Connection Table and xlate Table Troubleshooting
The Cisco ASA tracks two layered tables that explain almost every "is this traffic flowing" question: the connection
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Cisco ASA asp-drop Counters Explained
The Cisco ASA's accelerated security path (ASP) is the data-plane fast path that handles every forwarded packet
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Cisco ASA Packet Capture from CLI
Packet capture from the Cisco ASA CLI is the highest-resolution diagnostic tool you have. When show conn, show xlate,
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Cisco ASA Stateful Failover and Interface Tracking
Stateful failover is the option that turns a Cisco ASA active/standby pair into something users actually do not notice
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Cisco ASA Active/Standby Failover Configuration
Active/standby failover on the Cisco ASA is the simplest high-availability mode the platform supports: two physically identical firewalls
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Troubleshoot AnyConnect Login and Certificate Problems on ASA
AnyConnect (Cisco Secure Client) login failures fall into a small handful of categories, and each one has its own debug
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Troubleshoot Cisco ASA IPsec VPN Phase 1 and Phase 2
When an IPsec VPN tunnel on a Cisco ASA does not come up, the failure is almost always in one