BT Business Hub 3 – And Cisco ASA 5500
Nov17

BT Business Hub 3 – And Cisco ASA 5500

KB ID 0000762  Problem Warning: If your ASA is running version 8.3(4) or above you are going to have problems assigning public IP addresses from your allocated BT Range (jump to the bottom of the article for a resolution). You have a pool of public IP addresses and you wish to allocate one of these IP addresses to your Cisco ASA Firewall. Note: This is for customers using BOTH ADSL and BT Infinity Solution For this procedure I was...

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Cisco ASA 5500 – Install and Configure a CSC Module
Nov17

Cisco ASA 5500 – Install and Configure a CSC Module

KB ID 0000731  Problem The Cisco CSC module provides ‘in line’ scanning of POP3, SMTP, HTTP and FTP traffic, to protect against viruses but also for anti spam and anti phish (with the correct licensing). If you are familiar with Trend products, you will like it, (because that’s what it runs), and the interface is much the same as Trend IWSS. It is a hardware device that plugs into the back of the ASA, and comes in...

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Cisco Firewalls Changing the Web Management Port
Nov17

Cisco Firewalls Changing the Web Management Port

Cisco 5500 Changing the ASDM Port Unable to Port Forward HTTPS KB ID 0000268 Problem You want to change the port that the Cisco ASDM runs over, or you are attempting to port forward https/ssl and see the following error Error: ERROR: unable to reserve port 443 for static PAT ERROR: unable to download policy You are trying to port forward (Create a static PAT entry) on a Cisco ASA for port 443 / https. This port is in use by the ASDM....

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Configure Cisco EasyVPN With Cisco ASA 5500
Nov17

Configure Cisco EasyVPN With Cisco ASA 5500

KB ID 0000337 Problem Site to site VPN’s are great for main office to branch office connections, but for remote workers in a SOHO environment obtaining a static IP address can be expensive and time consuming. Traditionally remote workers will use either AnyConnect or IPSEC Remote VPN’s. However Cisco have a system which lets you have a main site (or sites), with a static IP, that acts as the EasyVPN server, then remote...

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Cisco ASA – Java RDP Error – Connection Exception Wrong modulus size! Expected64 +8got:264
Nov17

Cisco ASA – Java RDP Error – Connection Exception Wrong modulus size! Expected64 +8got:264

KB ID 0000452 Problem Seen while attempting to connect to to a Windows machine via the RDP plug in on a Cisco ASA firewall. Error: properJavaRDP error Connection Exception Wrong modulus size! Expected64 +8got:264 Solution 1. I’ve seen some posts indicating that this can be caused by the version of Java that’s installed, however in my case that was NOT the problem. 2. Connect to the ASDM of the ASA firewall >...

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