Cisco Firewall :: ASA 5520 - Create Network Object For Range Of Hosts?
Oct 25, 2011
I'm migrating our network objects from our current firewall to a new ASA 5520 configuration. I'm using ASDM 6.4 for configuration.
We have a range of IP addresses for hosts that we need to add to a firewall rule/ACL. In the previous FW software I could create an object that was a range of IP address. For example there is an object called emailservers that is defined as 192.168.2.25-192.168.2.50.
Is there a way to do a similar thing on the ASA 5520?
I can see how to create subnets, but in this case I only have a range of IP addresses, no subnet mask.
Does the ASA treat an object-group with a network-object containing a range of IP addresses as a netmask? For example, I can apply this configuration without the ASA throwing any errors though the configuration calls for a 'net mask':
object-group network test network-object 192.168.0.0 192.168.63.255 ? network-object-group mode commands/options: A.B.C.D Enter an IPv4 network mask sh run ob id test object-group network test network-object 192.168.0.0 192.168.63.255
I found that in the documentation it requires a netmask as oppose to a range. Is this a bug in the code? I am running code version 8.0(5)23 on a 5520. If this is not a bug how does the ASA treat this type of configuration when applied to an access list? When I ran a quick packet trace and denied access from that range it looks like the ASA doesn't read that configuration properly.
I have recently upgraded my ASA 5510 to 8.3 code and honestly I am confused on the best and most efficient way to do many nat translations through it. I have a group of about 100 IP's that need http/https/and sqlnet allowed through for our web farm.
I have a text file with the real and translated IP addresses and in 8.2 I could simply modify it and dump the thing in and make the NAT rules and access-lists. Now with the new object based model I am having a hard time wrapping my brain around how to do this using as few lines of code as possible.
Do I have to create an network object for each and every IP i want to nat through?
After reading the post titled "ASA 5520 nat access-list query for internet access" I realized the object-group command could and should be used to make a more efficient and cleaner configuration. My current environment is very small and straight forward consisting of one FTP server in the DMZ. Though the guide: [URL] is straight forward, my inexperience hinders me from seeing how to use the commands effectively. A summary of the configuration is at the bottom of this post
Question: How can I clean up my current configuration? I have two references to the same server, dmz-rdp and dmz-ftp, created for port forwarding ports 3389 and ftp through the outside interface. I can combine them into one object statement, right? for each port I want to forward through the outside interface?
I've just taken over a new network with a Cisco ASA5520. Everything is working fine, except I am being bombarded with 106001 alerts from a few internal hosts to one specific internal host. The description in general is "Inbound TCP connection denied from 10.1.0.1 to 10.1.0.5 - both of those are valid internal hosts and the TCP ports are also valid. I tried looking at the log and getting it me to tell me which rule was causing these alerts, but it just came back with 'It's not possible for these type of alerts'
- How is it possible for the ASA to even pick up on this when, in theory, the source host wouldn't be going near the ASA since it's on the same subnet?
- What might be causing this?
- How can I turn it off!! (I guess that'd be fixed by point 2)
trying to configure our ASA 5505 (hence my request for the ASDM). However, I can go CLI if push comes to shove.
What I'm trying to do is allow a range of IP addresses on the inside interface (those which the DHCP server is doling out IPs which are XXX.X.XXX.14-140) to access email only (which is hosted offsite). They still need to access the file servers which are on the inside but nothing should be going out to the internet other than email.
I believe I have to create a Network Object which contains the IP range I wish to restrict. I can see where I add the Network Object but I don't know what the syntax should be to specify the address range.
I'm also not sure what the sequence of the ACLs should be and whether or not I can keep the default Access Rules in place. There are the two implicit rules: 1) Permit any traffic out to less secure networks 2) Deny any traffic to anywhere (which is superceded by rule 1, yes?)
To create an Access Rule like the one I desire, do I need to move the two existing rules down the list so that the new one will supercede both implicit rules?
In cisco router 2911 how to creat a network object with port permission on ACL. herz what i have done but couldnt succeed in port 22 and 24 should be denied and rest all port services are allowed to outside interface. [code]
There is something wrong with the ordering of our NAT-rules.We are running ASA Version 8.4(2)8 and the nat config is pasted below.
I want outgoing smtp-traffic to be translated to xxx.yyy.zzz.18, but instead it's translated to xxx.yyy.zzz.20 (the outside-interface address).The same goes for ftp-traffic, according to packettracer this is also translated to the xxx.yyy.zzz.20.
Ciscos manual states that static nat rules takes precedence over dynamic nat but that doesn't seem to work for us. [code]
I have 3 ASA 5510s; two of which are in production and the 3rd one is new. I inherited the two in production and was trying to configure that 3rd one using some of the existing object-group network statements. The problem is that when I try to create a range of IPs in one of the object-groups; the range command is not available. Here is one of the statements extracted from one of the production ASAs: object network REMOTE range 62.77.130.14 62.77.130.208.Both ASAs have the same image ver (asa842-k8). Is there something that I am missing to be able to enable the range option on the new ASA?
I just tried to do a quick privilege level setup for a user to limit access to asa. User should be able to add nat's to configuration.ASA 8.4 is in question and trying the following does not seem to work:
privilege configure level 3 command object,gives me ,ERROR: specified command 'object' not found in any mode.It looks like localy this cannot be done or I am doing something wrong?
I am having to NAT an IP range on our ASA 5520 as a remote VPN has the same IP range. The NAT is done, but for the source access list on our ASA do I need to use our natted IP range or the non-natted IP range?
We have Cisco ASA 5510, I am about to add another 2 Objectgroup network groups on the firewall to our already growing list. Under this Object-group Network xxxx , we are planning to add about about 500 network-object host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx . This objectgroup will then be applied to an ACL. Just wanted to know if thats possible - meaning addnig 500 hosts? If it is whats the limit?
Also are there any other things to keep in mind before i go-ahead with this huge object group?
I have installed asa 5520 , software ver is 8.4,I have SSM-20 installed in asa 5520. How to pass traffic through this ssm-20 ,how to create sensors,how to update signatures of this IPS module ,is there any procedure to automatically update the signatures .
I'm new to this site, fully Microsoft certified but only just getting in cisco and looking to pass my CCNA later this year. Actual commands and general use on Cisco's im quite good at but general networking knowledge on networking (subnetting and network layers) I kinda suck at so will be studying a lot on this side of things[CODE]
Any confirmation that the versions 8.6 and up don't allow publishing to more then one public range if IP addresses?
We have ASA5520 version 8.4 in deployment and there I can NAT to 3 different ranges of public IP-s.
With same configuration on ASA5525-X version 8.6 it will NAT only the range that the outside interface belongs to. Also tried the 9.0 version with the same result.
We are facing the problem in ASDM 5.x creates duplicate network object groups in the configuration when PIX with software 7.0.7 is used. Audit report its showing below commands :
I am trying to figure out how to create an etherchannel with sub-interfaces on an asa 5520 running 8.4.1 code. It doesn't seem to allow me to configure any type of sub interface on the port-channel or anywhere else once I create it.
Got an ASA5520 running V8.2(3) and we want to upgrade our internet bandwidth. Our ISP says OK but we need to install different physical circuit, upgrade CPE router, etc.
Then they say, btw your globally allocated IPs will change - this is a problem as we have Site-to-Site VPN Tunnels, IPSEC RA, etc.
ISP are proposing to give us a 3 month period whereby old & new IP blocks will be routed to our ASA (by means of secondary IP address on their Cisco CPE).
Multiple IPs on the same physical i/f on the ASA require sub-interfaces/IP Addresses/VLAN ids on my "outside" i/f.
Is this going to horiibly break Site-to-Site VPN Tunnesl, IPSEC remote access ?
Will VLANs work at all with IPSEC on the "oustide" i/f at all ?
I have a Cisco ASA 5520 (Ver 8.2(4)) with all four interfaces in use (Public, Private, DMZ, Local offices) and an IPS module, so there are no spare interfaces. I have used all of Public IP's on the current interface for various services (these need one to one mapping, so I can't port map mainly due to SSL certificate issues) and I need to add another Public IP range. The secondary option on ASA interfaces does not exist as on routers/switches and I need to use an additional non contiguous IP address range for additional services advertised on the Public interface that are NAT'd to be servers in my DMZ.
I have seen an example of adding a static arp on the Private interface to allow a secondary gateway to be used for outbound traffic, but I need to allow 14 new IP addresses to be NAT'd from the Public to DMZ and possibly also for outbound NAT'ing (from either Private or DMZ to the Public). I have a L2 switch between the ISP router and the firewall, so using VLAN's is not an option unless the ISP can be persuaded (highly unlikey) to add the seondary IP's as a sub interface with tagging. Anyway if this was actioned then we would have a massive outage on our current IP range during the transistion.
I have a 5540, and i am trying to allow access to internet for an specific network object group, who has inside a bunch of users, who needs direct internet access without any restrictions, i have tried with dynamic NAT, but that configuration ask for a specific IP o a Network range, and is not permitted to configure an object group as a source
The group is located in LAN zone, so a permission from one zone to another zone is needed i think, but i can allow the internet acess to that group Is there another way to get that , different from NAT ?
this is ASA5520 associate with 8.4(1). very simple scenario , three ports: inside . outside . DMZ my problem is how to use network object NAT to perform Regular Dynamic PAT and Identity NAT.
for example, this is my configuration
**** first i configured Regular Dynamic PAT****
object network myinside subnet 10.200.11.0 255.255.255.0 nat (inside,outside) dynamic interface **** then , i met problem when i want to make identity NAT between inside and DMZ**** **** if i add below CLI , the first nat line will be replaced **** **** SO IF I ADD THIS****
I have two hosts behind an ASA on a private network. Both hosts are NAT'ed (each has a unique public IP). I need Host A to be able to talk to Host B through their respective external IP's.
Using CCP I am trying to create a NAT entry for a range of ports. CCP window for a new NAT has only one entry for the port #. Is it possible to set uf port ranges in 877 router?
I have a customer an exisiting 5505 which connects to multiple sites for a site-to-site VPN. This firewall was not installed by myself originally I have just been asked to take a look now.The situation is that we now need to edit one of the existing site-to-site VPNs to include the remote sites expanded network. I have tried doing this through the ASDM and have found that I cannot add new network objects. I have tried creating a new network object group and then added the new networks from there but I am completely unable to add the new objects.I believe a picture tells a thousand words in this case so I have attached some images which show the problem. I have also tried going through the VPN wizard, this also does not allow me to add new network objects.
I have a home network using a 2600 and PIX515E, and unfortunetly I don't know how to set up ACLs. I read a few Cisco documentation but unfortunetly I am unable to grasp the concept of how to define them. Would anyone be able to give me a crash course on setting up ACLs?
I have a Cisco ASA 5505 (version above) and I have someone that needs to SSH into a box behind the ASA. I'm having a few issues trying to configure this access-list and NAT. I've tried many combinations and clearly my IOS is not as good as I thought. What commands should I enter to accomplish mapping SSH from an outside network range to an internal host ?
Is it possible somehow to define externally administred DNS namese in ASA 8.4 in within object groups?i know that we can use name XXX, but some idea popped up using this kind of configuration.
We have an ASA5505 that we need to enable hairpinning on.... In the old firmware versions, we used to be able to configure a public to private static mapping along with hairpinning by using
however, since object nat only allows a single nat statement, I was attempting to use a twice nat to enable the hairpin functionality, but have been unsuccessful in coming up with the right combination of parameters for the functionality.
allows hairpinning to successully work from the same machine. Meaning on any given host, I can ping itself using the private or public ip, but I can't get the right combination for hairpinning from any private host to another private host via the public ip. Other combinations have yielded icmp responses, however, they specify the private IP as the source of the reply instead of the public ip.
I'd like to see some REAL LIFE comparisons of ASA firewall throughput (a bit like this one for ISR G2 Routers - [URL].
The reason I ask is that I recently upgraded a firewall from an ASA5505 to an ASA5520 on a small network where the only outside connectivity was a single 10meg Internet circuit with an IPSEC VPN (not landed on the firewall but on a router) to another site.
When I swapped out the firewall the users noticed a big improvement. The firewall is not doing anything out of the ordinary - no IPS or VPN, just standard state full inspection.
I have an ASA5510 where I have defined object-groups and then associated them with a specific ACL. Our ISP is pulling their point of presence from where I live and I am force to move to a new ISP. I am in the process of setting up another interface for the ASA5510 to connect to the new ISP.
My questions is can I create a new ACL lets call it new_access_in and use it with the same object groups that I have already defined? I know that I can only have one ACL bound to an interface, and will bind this new ACL to the new interface I am setting up, but I wasn't sure if I could use the same object groups and connect them to a different ACL. I really don't want to have to create new object groups if I don't have to.
I have an ASA 5510 and have just started using object-groups which are super handy in theory, but not working in reality. I have a service object-group with a mix of tcp, icmp, and udp ports. Let's call it Sample_Port_Group. I'm trying to apply it to my dmz_access_in ACL. Here's the line giving me problems:
access-list dmz_access_in extended permit object-group Sample_Port_Group 192.168.1.1 any
The asa throws up an error between 192.168.1.1 and any. When I put up a ? after Sample_Port_Group, it gives me the option of putting in an IP address, any, etc. When I put in a ? after 192.168.1.1, it only gives me the option of putting in an IP address.URL
Those posts gave me the impression my line was possible, especially the "access-list outsideacl extended permit object-group myaclog interface inside any" line, which is at the end of the 2nd article linked.
