I recently noticed that my ASA 5540 has been using up a considerable amount of memory, around 870+ megs.I powered cycled the unit and the memory use went down to around 250 megs (under typical network loads). This is becomming an issue because its ef...
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We have a PIX515E on software 8.0(4). We are in the process of upgrading our mail gateway and I need to modify our NAT statement to facilitate traffic. Here is the scenario: The mail gateway has an inbound and outbound interface on the same privat...
I have an ASA 5520 being used for VPN. We're running AnyConnect SSL client and I have a dhcp scope of 190 addresses. I need to increase this scope as more users connect to it. Can I add a new dhcp scope within the existing subnet mask / broadcast dom...
Hi,Does Site to Site VPN using hostname is supported in Cisco ASA firewall?Regards,Arun.L
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Hi Is there any limit on nat capabolity on an ASA or is this dependent on ram/ cpu ?I ask as i have 18 nat pools and 18 Global outside addresses ( a subnet per pool going to a single outside address pat / nat ). Each PC connection can have 100 + conn...
Resolved! Making a 5510 a firewall and router?
Hello,I'm currently looking into purchasing a 5510 asa with the security plus for HA and vpn capabilities.My network flow as I'm envisioning it isInternet -> 5510 -> Switches -> servers.Will that work?I only need the 5510 to do vpn, and PAT(that is w...
Resolved! PIX secondary IP
Hello,I have to install a PIX firewall and I have a question. Our ISP has assigned us two ranges of IP's (each range from a different subnet, for example, 10.165.100.32/27 and 10.165.200.160/27). I will assign one IP from one of these two ranges to t...
All...Here's the scenario:There's a host on the internal network that has a reverse shell to the outside world, and the packets being sent back to the attacker are encrypted, over a standard web (TCP/80) port - which is allowed by Websense or URL fil...
Hi!I need your help to understand something about the stateful inspection.Say we have a source X (initiator) that wants to access a destination Y that is in the "inside" network of the ASA. The source X is accessing Y across a tunnel.We have an Cryp...
I have 3 campuses; each campus has a DNS server and firewall.Each firewall has 3 zones: inside (10.5.5.0), outside (171.49.34.0), DMZ (10.5.29.0)Campus 1: Is where the primary DNS server is. The other two campuses get their DNS replicated from this s...
Hello,My firewall in multiple mode.When i create asa login with privilage 0 its shown me all possibility of firewall in which i can configure. so plz tell me what the difference between login level.
Hi everyone,I need to limit the number of packets per second on a well known port. Is that possible using ASA 5505 without IPS? and How?Regards,Omar
We currently have 2 ASA 5510's in Active/Standby state. Our current issue is that the primary ASA is taking quite a hit with the numerous NAT'ting and ACL's that have been implemented over time. RAM use is high, but CPU is ok.I have given some though...
HelloI need some help about access list. I understand is being read from top to down butI would like to confirm if someone have a reference or knowledge on how to organizeaccess list w/ different protocols. what i meant is from top to down w/c protoc...
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