Network Security

Hi there,I upgraded our PIX from 6.3(2) to 6.3(5). The upgrade went fine and everything seems to be working.But we are discovering very slow internet connection now. Especially http traffic is very slow and doesn't work correctly. Did Cisco do some c...

All,If I have some networks:10.125.0.010.126.0.010.127.0.010.128.0.010.129.0.010.130.0.0Would it be "safe" to create statics likestatic (inside,dmz1) 10.124.0.0 10.124.0.0 netmask 255.252.0.0static (inside,dmz1) 10.128.0.0 10.128.0.0 netmask 255.252....

We have two VPN Concentrators 3005 (rel. 4.7.1). We set them up as Load Balancing. We are running VPN Client 5.0.3. For some reasons, the VPN client gets disconnected every hour. It said "Secure VPN connection terminated locally by the client. Reason...

Hi All, I have a DMVPN network up and running.... I need to add configuration for VPN clients...I am attaching my working DMVPN configuration and the additional commands that I've added to try to make the VPN clients work.... (not working so far).My ...

Hello,I got a question regarding a PIX506 with Site-to-Site VPN and TWO IP-Networks on the inside.Currently I got a PIX 506 running with ONE IP-Network (172.16.200.0/24) on the inside and several Site-to-site VPN-Connections on the PIX. The Remote-Si...

More of a sanity check question than anything else:Does the "packets dropped" counter on an ASA firewall interface include just interface drops or does it include ACL rule drops in the count?Ex: Traffic Statistics for "int foo": 576675535 packets inp...

Greetings, All.Due to a *very* stringent security policy, the users behind a specific ASA 5505 (v 8.04) will only be allowed to access a limited number of web sites. For simplicities sake, let's just say they can only access www.espn.com and www.yaho...

Hi Folks,I am considering deploying a fail-over firewall pair to include IPS modules on a private network. My hardware is provided through a channel partner; maintenance is provided by another entity - so I don't have direct sight of any support cont...

Hello, I've received a new ASA5550 with version 7.2.4 pre-installed. Now, regarding CSA vulnerabilities published in april (http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20090408-asa.shtml), should I:1- keep this version 7.2.4 even it it does not fix...

Hi all,I have FWSM in 6500. The FWSM has 10 contexts configured. Can I perform syslog and and backups to a server on a network connected to the Admin context... or do I have to have visibility to my syslog/backup server from all contexts?The way it i...

Hi All,I have an ASA with 2 Security Contexts license. I see that I can create two contexts and I will still have the admin context. This mean that I have three contexts? In other words, can I use the admin context as a regular context or is it restr...

Hi All, I just want to know why there's not an option to redirect web traffic to the IronPort WebFiltering appliance from the ASA (like it works with Websense or Smartfilter N2H2). The ASA can specify only those two vendors and not the IronPort (whic...

We use an ASA 5510 as our firewall with a IDS security module. Upon running reports this morning I came across this and I am baffled.Please see attached document.What I want to know is why is it picking up an IP addy of 0.0.0.0 that's hitting our out...

Doing speed tests from speakeasy.net without going through the VPN Client I get roughly 31000kbps / 3500 kbps down/up. VPN connected I roughly get 1500kbps / 1000 kbps. Any ideas why download speeds dramatically drops? I know encryption taxes a part ...

Dear All,I am having difficulty looking information regarding upgrade of FWSM. Currently, we have ver 2.3, can I upgrade direct to 4.0 or do I need to upgrade ti 3.0 first? Same for PDM. Can I upgrade to 6.0 direct?