Deploy Dual Virtual ASA Firewalls In Active/Standby Failover
KB ID 0000053 Problem Now you have created your Virtual ASA platform you want to deploy 2 of them in failover configuration. Solution Notes: Software To Download Qemu with ASA Dynamips WinPcap Sample Batch File @echo off ECHO Telnet to 127.0.0.1 on port 1234 to access ASA Console ECHO ——————————————————- ECHO * * * * * * *DO NOT...
Building a Virtual Cisco ASA
KB ID 0000051 Problem You would like to create a virtual Cisco ASA platform in a virtualized environment for training and or testing. Solution Notes: Software To Download Qemu with ASA Dynamips WinPcap Sample Batch File @echo off ECHO Telnet to 127.0.0.1 on port 1234 to access ASA Console ECHO ——————————————————- ECHO * * * * *...
GNS3 Cannot Connect Network Interfaces when running on VMware vSphere
KB ID 0000671 Problem I have plenty of real ASA firewalls to play with, but it’s getting round to re-certification time, so for ease I thought I’d run up a Virtual ASA on my vSphere 5 box just for testing and breaking. However no matter what type of Virtual Network adaptor I used (vmxnet3, e1000, etc) I could not connect to the virtual firewall. Solution 1. Firstly make sure you actually have an IP address in the correct...
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...