Cisco ASA VPN to Cisco Router “MM_WAIT_MSG3”
Mar27

Cisco ASA VPN to Cisco Router “MM_WAIT_MSG3”

KB ID 0001531 Problem While migrating a VPN tunnel from an ASA 5520 firewall to a new 5516-X I got this problem. The other end was a Cisco router (2900). As soon as I swapped it over, it was stuck at MM_WAIT_MSG3, and phase 1 would not establish; NUFC-ASA5516x(config-tunnel-ipsec)# show crypto isa IKEv1 SAs: Active SA: 6 Rekey SA: 0 (A tunnel will report 1 Active and 1 Rekey SA during rekey) Total IKE SA: 6 1 IKE Peer: 1.1.1.1 Type :...

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Cisco ASA: Allow VPN Traffic “Through” A Cisco Firewall
May06

Cisco ASA: Allow VPN Traffic “Through” A Cisco Firewall

KB ID 0001428 Problem I got asked to put in a VPN for a client, this week, it went from a simple site to site, to a site to site with a Fortigate firewall at one end, to a VPN from and ASA to a Fortigate ‘through’ another ASA.  It’s been a few years since I had to tunnel  ‘through’ a firewall, and experience tells me, if you don’t have control of BOTH ends of a new VPN tunnel, anything that stops...

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Cisco ASA Site to Site VPN’sSite to Site ISAKMP VPN (Main Mode)
Nov17

Cisco ASA Site to Site VPN’sSite to Site ISAKMP VPN (Main Mode)

KB ID 0000213 Problem As with most things, before you have a hope of fixing something, you will stand a better chance if you know how it works in the first place. Below is a quick run though of what’s happening with your site to site VPN’s and how they work. For the entire process we will have two Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and a site to site VPN. Solution What’s an Initiator and a Responder? 1. Our Laptop 192.168.1.50...

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