I just got through a big weekend. We upgraded our main production firewall, but the process had a few twists. The old firewalls, a pair of ASA 5520s, were running at about 80% CPU during the day. …
RichardF commented on an article I wrote last November and mentioned the prompt command in the ASA. I never set aside any time to research it, but I finally took the time today while waiting for a …
I was exploring commands on the ASA a while back and discovered that you can run commands on the standby unit from the active.
A buddy asked for some help on configuring a pair of ASAs in active/passive mode, and, by pure coincidence, my newest project is to set up the same. I’ve done it many time, but it’s one of …
A few years ago, I developed a Perl-based application that take a template file and pukes out standardized access rules for new hosts as they’re added to the network. This works great for making …
I’ll start off with a warning. I’ve been running 8.3.1 on my home 5505 for a few hours now. Not only is this not really enough time for a thorough review, it’s also not the environment to test …