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 VPN Client Connects but no traffic will Pass
Sep08

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...

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Cisco ASA 5500 Client VPN Access Via Kerberos (From CLI)
Nov17

Cisco ASA 5500 Client VPN Access Via Kerberos (From CLI)

KB ID 0000049 Problem You would like to enable remote access for your clients using the Cisco VPN Client software. Solution Before you start – you need to ask yourself “Do I already have any IPSEC VPN’s configured on this firewall?” Because if its not already been done, you need to enable ISAKMP on the outside interface. To accertain whether yours is on, or off, issue a “show run crypto isakmp”...

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