Cisco FirePOWER SFR Module Cannot Ping
KB ID 0001174 Problem On a newly deployed FirePOWER service module I wanted to test connectivity and attempted to ping a public IP address. This is what happened; > expert admin@Petes-SFR:~$ ping 8.8.8.8 ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted My first though was, “Well you have to set a default gateway on the SFR when you set it up, so the firewall is probably blocking ICMP”. So I checked the default policy...
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...
Juniper SRX – ‘The Routing Subsystem Is Not Running’
KB ID 0001045 Problem While trying to deploy Solarwinds to monitor a Juniper SRX failover cluster, we were having no joy connecting to the management interface of the secondary/standby firewall. The management (fxp0) interface on the primary (node0) firewall we could get to OK. ] After jumping on the secondary firewall (via the console connection) we observed the following; error: the routing subsystem is not running Solution As you...
Cisco ASA – I Cannot Ping External Addresses? (Troubleshooting ICMP)
KB ID 0000914 Problem Considering we use ICMP to test connectivity, the fact that it is not a stateful protocol can be a major pain! Last week one of my colleagues rang me up and said, “Can you jump on this firewall, I’ve got no comms, and I cant ping external IP addresses. I can ping the internet from the firewall and I can ping internal IP addresses form the firewall”. Solution 1. Before we start, lets get the basics...