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A couple of things I do with either PIX or ASA to watch live traffic:1-Syslog, just be sure to have a syslog server (easier to sift through) and log to informational level.2-Can look at output from show conn (not as helpful but you can grep or | inc ...
Oops-I did miss the config line allowing same level communication. We had a similar scenario and our engineering team came up with using multi-context mode. Or reason may be different from yours, but we needed to send traffic to core switches so that...
By default the ASA won't permit traffic between 2 interfaces with the same security level. You could configure the ASA to allow this communication with the command:(from global config mode)same-security-traffic permit inter-interface