Cisco Router – Password Recovery /Bypass
KB ID 0000931 Problem If you have a Cisco router that you have forgotten the password for, or have been given one, or simply bought one from ebay, you may not know the password. In fact many years ago an ISP was going to charge me a ridiculas amount of money to put an entry in a routers routing table, this procedure ‘ahem’ would have allowed to to do it myself, for free, and then reload the router. Solution The reason you...
Cisco PRSM – Replace the Certificate Using Microsoft Certificate Services
KB ID 0001023 Problem Cisco PRSM gives you the ability to import certificates into it, but like other Linux distros does not give you the tools to generate the actual certificate request. The documentation tells you to use OpenSSL to this. I was just about to fire up a CentOS box when I remembered I did something similar for VMware 5.5 not so long ago, would the same procedure work here? Yes it did, and it’s a lot easier than...
PIX 506E and 501 Firewall Image and PDM Upgrade
KB ID 0000065 Problem Note: PIX 515E and above, can still be upgraded to version 8.0(4) click here for details Some people will wonder why I’m bothering to write this up, but the truth is, there are LOADS of older PIX firewalls out there in the wild, and all the PIX 501’s and 506E’s that are being retired from corporate use are being bought on ebay, or being put on IT departments test benches. This page deals with...
Set up a PIX Firewall with the PDM
KB ID 0000217 Problem The following procedure is a complete run though on setting up a Cisco PIX Firewall (PIX 501, 506, 506E, 515, 515E, 520, 525, or 535) via the HTTPS GUI front end (PDM). Note: the PDM will only work with firewall operating systems BEFORE version 7.x.(x). Therefore PIX platforms that are 515E, 525 or 535 should be running version 7.x(x) or above and should be web managed via the ASDM. Unless you are out of support...
Cisco PIX 500 – IPSEC Site to Site VPNs (v6)
KB ID 0000611 Problem Note: This is for firewalls running an operating system BEFORE version 7, if you have an PIX running version 7 or above go here instead. I’ll run though he commands first and then the configuration from PDM at the end. Solution PIX 500: Configure a site to site VPN from command line 1. Connect to the PIX, go to “enable mode”, then to “Configure terminal mode” User Access...