Cisco ASA 5500 Allowing Tracert
Nov17

Cisco ASA 5500 Allowing Tracert

KB ID 0000753 Problem I’d always assumed that as Tracert uses ICMP, and that simply adding ICMP inspection on the ASA would let Tracert commands work. A client of mine is having some comms problems and wanted to test comms from his remote DR site, he had enabled time-exceeded and unreachable on the ASA (for inbound traffic) and that had worked. I checked the default inspection map and found inspect ICMP was there? As it turns...

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Cisco ASA – I Cannot Ping External Addresses?  (Troubleshooting ICMP)
Nov17

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...

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