Cisco ASA Site To Site VPN IKEv2 “Using CLI”
KB ID 0001429 Problem Note: This is for Cisco ASA 5500, 5500-x, and Cisco Firepower devices running ASA Code. You want a secure IPSEC VPN between two sites using IKEv2. Note: If the device you are connecting to does not support IKEv2 (i.e. it’s not a Cisco ASA, or it’s running code older than 8.4) then you need to go to the older version of this article; Cisco ASA 5500 Site to Site VPN IKEv1 (From CLI) Solution Before you...
ASA Local CA Depreciated: Use Windows CA
KB ID 0001616 Problem I got an email about this last night, I rarely ever use the ASA as a Local CA, But that has now been completely depreciated, (post version 9.12(x)) The documentation tells us; Local CA server is deprecated in 9.12(1), and will be removed in a later release—When ASA is configured as local CA server, it is enabled to issue digital certificates, publish Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), and securely revoke issued...
Bring up a VPN Tunnel From the ASA
KB ID 0001604 Problem A colleague was doing a firewall migration yesterday and I offered to sit in, in case he had any problems, one of the tasks was a VPN tunnel getting migrated, this is usually painless, (if you have control of both ends!) But in this case we didn’t, and it’s usually the case, when there’s VPN problems, the people at the {ahem} ‘less experienced,’ end of the tunnel tend to blame the...
Cisco ASA: NAT 2 Public IPs to 1 Private IP
KB ID 0001582 Problem I got asked today if this could be done. My first response was ‘why?’ I cant really think of a use case for this. But a client had this on their previous firewall and were migrating to a virtual ASA, and wanted the config replicating. So I built something like this; Solution To be fair, my first thought was ‘why not simply add an additional internal IP to the web server, and NAT the second...
Microsoft Azure To Cisco ASA Site to Site VPN
KB ID 000116 Problem The one reason I prefer Cisco over Microsoft is they rarely change things, you learn how to do something and it’s learned. This is the second time have had to write this article purely because the Azure UI has changed! Virtual Network Gateway Options With VPN’s into Azure you connect to a Virtual Network Gateway, of which there are TWO types Policy Based, and Route Based. This article will deal with...