Windows Server 2008 R2 – Configure RADIUS for Cisco ASA 5500 Authentication
KB ID 0000688 Problem Last week I was configuring some 2008 R2 RADIUS authentication, for authenticating remote VPN clients to a Cisco ASA Firewall. I will say that Kerberos Authentication is a LOT easier to configure, so you might want to check that first. Solution Step 1 Configure the ASA for AAA RADIUS Authentication 1. Connect to your ASDM, > Configuration > Remote Access VPN. > AAA Local Users > AAA Server Groups. 2....
Cisco ASA – Using ‘logging’ to see what ports are being blocked
KB ID 0000702 Problem If you look after a firewall, sooner or later something will fail, and the blame (rightly or wrongly), will be leveled at the firewall. I came back from holiday this week to find a client had got a problem with secure POP email. The problem had been fixed (temporarily) by dropping the affected users into a group, and opening all ports. As this had fixed the problem then it’s fair to say that the ASA was...
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 FireSIGHT – Enable Active Directory (LDAP) Authentication
KB ID 0001102 WARNING this is for older versions of the FirePOWER Management Platform, go to the following link for newer versions Cisco FirePOWER Management Appliance – Allowing Domain Authentication Problem To save you creating multiple users on your FireSIGHT appliance, and assigning roles to them you can utilise your existing Active Directory. In fact FireSIGHT does a good job of enabling granular administration based on AD...