Cisco ASA: Received a DELETE PFKey message from IKE
Dec11

Cisco ASA: Received a DELETE PFKey message from IKE

KB ID 0001720 Problem I was debugging a VPN tunnel today. (From a Fortigate to a Cisco ASAv). I was messing around with the encryption and hashing, when the tunnel fell over. Phase 1 was establishing fine but not Phase 2 (IPSEC).  I’ve got better skills on the ASA, so that’s where I was debugging; IPSEC: Received a PFKey message from IKE IPSEC: Parsing PFKey GETSPI message IPSEC: Creating IPsec SA IPSEC: Getting the...

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Fortigate to Cisco ASA Site to Site VPN
Nov24

Fortigate to Cisco ASA Site to Site VPN

KB ID 0001717 Problem Continuing with my ‘Learn some Fortigate’ theme’. One of the basic requirements of any edge firewall is site to site VPN. As the bulk of my knowledge is Cisco ASA it seems sensible for me to work out how to VPN both those firewalls together, like so; Well that’s the pretty picture, I’m building this EVE-NG so here’s what my workbench topology looks like; Disclaimer (Read First!...

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Cisco ASA – L2TP over IPSEC VPN
Jan10

Cisco ASA – L2TP over IPSEC VPN

KB ID 0000571 Problem Note: This is for Cisco ASA 5500, 5500-x, and Cisco Firepower devices running ASA Code. When Cisco released version 7 of the operating system for PIX/ASA they dropped support for the firewall acting as a PPTP VPN device. Note: If you want to use PPTP you can still terminate PPTP VPNs on a Windows server, if you enable PPTP and GRE Passthrough on the ASA. But if you want to use the native Windows VPN client you...

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Bring up a VPN Tunnel From the ASA
Oct08

Bring up a VPN Tunnel From the ASA

KB ID 0001604 Problem A colleague was doing a firewall migration yesterday and I offered to sit in, in case he had any problems, one of the tasks was a VPN tunnel getting migrated, this is usually painless, (if you have control of both ends!) But in this case we didn’t, and it’s usually the case, when there’s VPN problems, the people at the {ahem} ‘less experienced,’ end of the tunnel tend to blame the...

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Cisco ASA: ‘Received an un-encrypted INVALID_COOKIE notify message, dropping’
Apr06

Cisco ASA: ‘Received an un-encrypted INVALID_COOKIE notify message, dropping’

KB ID 0001421 Problem Saw this in a forum today, and knew what it was straight away! While attempting to get a VPN tunnel up from a Cisco ASA (5508-x) to a Sonicwall firewall this was there debug output; Apr 06 00:45:21 [IKEv1]IP = x.x.x.x, IKE Initiator: New Phase 1, Intf Lan, IKE Peer x.x.x.x local Proxy Address 192.168.90.150, remote Proxy Address 10.252.1.1, Crypto map (Internet_map) Apr 06 00:45:21 [IKEv1 DEBUG]IP = x.x.x.x,...

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