Cisco Router – Configure Site to Site IPSEC VPN
KB ID 0000933 Problem I’ve done thousands of firewall VPN’s but not many that terminate on Cisco Routers. It’s been a few years since I did one, and then I think I was a wuss and used the SDM. So when I was asked to do one last week thankfully I had the configs ready to go. I’m going to use the IP addresses above, and my tunnel will use the following settings; Encryption: AES. Hashing: SHA. Diffie Hellman:...
Cisco PIX 500 – IPSEC Site to Site VPNs (v6)
KB ID 0000611 Problem Note: This is for firewalls running an operating system BEFORE version 7, if you have an PIX running version 7 or above go here instead. I’ll run though he commands first and then the configuration from PDM at the end. Solution PIX 500: Configure a site to site VPN from command line 1. Connect to the PIX, go to “enable mode”, then to “Configure terminal mode” User Access...
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...
Site to Site IPSEC VPN from SonicWALL to Cisco ASA
KB ID 0000357 Problem You want to put in a secure IPSEC VPN tunnel from a Cisco ASA Device to a Sonicwall Firewall. Note in this example we will use 3DES for encryption, SHA1 for Hashing, Diffie Hellman Group 2, PFS enabled, and we will use a shared secret (Pre Shared Key). SonicWALL used in this example is a PRO 3060. Solution The main two gotcha’s Update 12/03/11 Feedback from Wajma Omari: I would like to add that this...
SmoothWall site to site (IPSEC) VPN to Cisco ASA
KB ID 0000436 Problem You would like to put in a site to site VPN from a site that has a SmoothWall firewall to another site that has a Cisco ASA. Note: This procedure was carried out on a SmoothWall UTM 1000 Series appliance, and uses a pre-shared key to authenticate the VPN. Solution 1. For The Cisco end of the configuration, you can configure it from command line see here, or from the ASDM see here.. 2. Connect to the...