Build a PIX Firewall for your test network
Working with GNS3 and PEMU – (Part 1) KB ID 0000061 Problem Cisco Firewall’s are expensive, I know I own some, and my firm sells them, getting hardware to run on your test bench is difficult enough, but getting high end Cisco equipment is an expensive proposition for your average “Techy”. These days most people run their test networks in virtual environment. I run Hyper-V at at home for Testing and I have my...
Cisco ASA 5500 – Adding New ‘Different Range’ Public IP Addresses
KB ID 0001006 Problem I got an email at work yesterday; “Hello Pete I have asked our ISP to give us two additional real IP addresses so that we can progress the following two projects: Microsoft DirectAccess Publishing documents to a web server from our internal DMS. {ISP Name} have come back and said that they don’t have the next available numbers in our current IP address range, but they do have two other numbers we could...
Cisco ASA – Policy NAT
KB ID 0001042 Problem I’ve been working on a large firewall deployment for a client, each of their DMZ’s have both a production and a management network. nothing particularly strange about that, but each of their DMZ’s has its own firewalled management network and it’s routable from the LAN. So If I’m an admin and I want to talk to a Linux appliance in their DMZ via its management interface, my traffic...