VLAN Communication on ASA5510

[jacobdixon]

Hey there!

I have a working environment but wondering if there is just a better way to accomplish what I am trying to do (without a layer 3 or 4 switch). Basically I have a few sub interfaces on my Cisco ASA5510.

Now what I do need is some of the VLANs to communicate with specific devices on the different VLANs. So for example I need computer 1 from VLAN 5 to communicate with 192.168.10.5 from VLAN 10 on ports 80 and 443. Is there a good way to accomplish this?

What I am currently doing is settings the security level to 100 on each interface (including the DMZ).

Here is what I have:

interface Ethernet0/1.5

vlan 5

nameif Sub5

security-level 100

ip address 192.168.4.254 255.255.255.0

interface Ethernet0/1.95

vlan 95

nameif Sub95

security-level 100

ip address 192.168.1.203 255.255.255.0

same-security-traffic permit inter-interface

static (Sub95,Sub5) 192.168.1.0 access-list Sub95_nat_static_1

static (Sub5,Sub95) 192.168.4.0 192.168.4.0 netmask 255.255.255.0

access-list Sub95_nat_static_1 extended permit ip 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 host 192.168.4.15

Now I am doing this all with ASDM 6.4. My ASA image is 805-K8.

Is there an easier way to accomplish this than what I am doing? It just seems like a ton of NATs and whatknot? I am really using ASDM the most and not shell. I am also wondering how to allow more of a one way communication? Like sub interface 95 be able to communicate on certain ports and ip addresses to sub interface 5, but sub interface 5 not be able to communicate with 95

[Karsten Iwen · Accepted solution]

Instead of using static translations you can use NAT-exemption where you tell your ASA that traffic, that you specified in an nat0-ACL (for example Net5 to Net95) should not be translated. Then you apply an ACL to every interface and only allow the traffic you want.

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[jacobdixon]

Sorry for the novice questions but I'm just not very familiar with Cisco.

So do you mean something like:

access-list Sub5_nat0_outbound line 1 extended permit ip any 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0

nat (Sub5) 0 access-list Sub5_nat0_outbound  tcp 0 0 udp 0

access-list Sub95_nat0_outbound line 18 extended permit ip any 192.168.4.0 255.255.255.0

What else would I need to do?

[jacobdixon]

I am getting that NAT exempt to work and I can pass traffic but I am having issues limiting what traffic is allowed or not allowed with the ACL

[jacobdixon]

Sorry for the post. I think I have it figured out.

So after doing the NAT Exempt and if the security levels are the same they can communicate 100% on every port and every host.

So I put in access list so Sub95 can talk to Sub5.

Basically I had to put ACL on Sub95 interface so it could talk to Sub5 (192.168.4.15) on port 25, then put a deny rule in after that going to that subnet, then put a permit rule in for any any so it can get out to the internet.

access-list Sub95_access_in extended permit tcp any host 192.168.4.15 eq smtp

access-list Sub95_access_in extended deny ip any object-group Inside_Networks

access-list Sub95_access_in extended permit ip any any

[Karsten Iwen · Accepted solution]

Yes, one ACL for NAT where you only specify the IP-traffic from Network to network. And every interface gets his own access-ACL with the specific allowed communication.

I typically write that ACL different:

access-list DMZ1-ACCESS-IN permit ... first line with permit to inside

access-list DMZ1-ACCESS-IN permit ... second line with permit to inside

access-list DMZ1-ACCESS-IN deny ip any object-group RFC1918

access-list DMZ1-ACCESS-IN permit ... here comes the permitted access to the internet

As all my actual and future inside networks are all in the RFC1918-range, I don't have to touch that deny-line when I add an additional IP-subnet to one of the inside-interfaces.

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