Cisco ASA Remote Management via VPN
ASA Remote Management KB ID 0000984 Problem It’s been ages since I has to do this, I usually just manage firewalls via SSH from outside. But I was out on a client site last week and needed to connect to to my ASA, so I simply connected in via AnyConnect; Note: The same procedure is applicable if you are an IPSEC VPN client, L2TP VPN client, or simply coming in over a site to site VPN link. And attempted to SSH, no joy, I tried...
FortiGate: SSL-VPN With FortiClient (AD Authenticated)
KB ID 0001725 Problem FortiGate Remote Access (SSL-VPN ) is a solution that is a lot easier to setup than on other firewall competitors. Here’s how to setup remote access to a FortiGate firewall device, using the FortiClient software, and Active Directory authentication. This is what my topology looks like; Note: I’ve changed the FortiGates default management HTTPS port from 443 to 4433 (before I started). This was to let...
Azure: Point to Site VPN From mac OS?
KB ID 0001693 Problem We mac users always get overlooked. If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard ‘Yeah we don’t support macs?” I would be a rich man. But thankfully this makes us work things out for ourselves usually! So recently I did a article Azure: Point To Site VPN (Remote Access User VPN) but what if you want to use the same solution for a remote mac user? Solution Firstly you will want to download...
Cisco ASA – Enable Split Tunnel for Remote Clients
KB ID 0000066 Problem This is a simple job to do from command line, however the world is full of people who would rather spend an hour in the ASDM working out how to do it! So I’ve included both methods. What is split tunneling? This is the process of letting a remote VPN user browse the web, and access local resources etc, from their location whilst connected to your VPN in this case via SSLVPN, but also from WebVPN or IPSEC...
Cisco VPN Client Connects but no traffic will Pass
Note: May also be asked as, Client VPN connects but cannot ping anything behind the Firewall. KB ID 0000199 Problem If I had a pound for every time I’ve seen this either in the wild, or asked in a forum, I would be minted! In nearly every case the problem is NAT related. In most cases, If the person launching the VPN client is behind a device that is performing NAT, (Home Router, Access Point, Firewall, etc) then the device will...