Cisco Firewall :: ASA 5550 - Optimize Performance For Web Traffic?
Mar 14, 2011
We are suffering slow https traffic download. We have a CISCO ASA 5550, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.0(5)19. When we try to download some videos from an https server we have a data download rate of about 140 kbps, but if we bypass the firewall and put a laptop just after the border router, data rate increase up to 350-400 kbps.
We configured a new interface in the firewall and we connected a laptop directly to the port in the ASA 5550, with a new ACL permit ip any any, just for test purposes, but data rate is still the same, 140 kbps.
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Aug 24, 2011
We have a new Cisco ASA 5550 that I am trying to configure. We are currently using a borderware firewall.
We have multiple external IP addresses and I can NAT traffic from all except for our external interface IP address.
When watching the packets in the ADSM monitor if the IP address is our external IP then I see nothing unless it is ICMP. I can ping the IP address just cannot do anything else with it.
All the rest of our provided IP addresses can be NATed and work correctly.
Traffic for our external interface IP does show up when we use the borderware firewall so we know the traffic is getting here.
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May 14, 2013
In our company we use ASA 5550 as a VPN server (failover pair, FW 8.2(5)). Long time we used Cisco VPN client (easyVPN) only and some time ago we started to use L2TP/IPsec VPN from Windows clients.From this time we can see strange behavior. Some ip addreses (we use ipv4 only) from local VPN ip pool are getting unusable for clients. When client gets this ip address the traffic from client to intranet is ok but the traffic from intranet to the client is blocked. This behavior affect both L2TP/IPsec and easyVPN clients with this ip address.The packet trace shows that the traffic will be blocked because implicit deny ACL but ACL for the connected user is created:
Phase: 10
Type: ACCESS-LIST
Subtype: vpn-user
Result: DROP
Config:
Additional Information:
[code].....
We use RADIUS for authentication and ACL. Failover to the standby ASA solves the problem but this terminates all L2TP/IPsec VPN connections.We use Cisco Anyconnect VPN too and when Anyconnect client gets this „strange“ ip address he can communicate normally without problems. It looks like that this problem is related to IPsec. how to discover why ASA uses -implicit deny- instead of user ACL?
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Dec 19, 2011
I am interesting how ASA 5585-X with SSP-60 operates in dual firewall mode, if I install two SSP-60 modules in chassi, do I get one logical firewall with doubled performance of (SSP-60) ?
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Sep 11, 2011
we are experiencing performance issues on ASR 1004 with ZBF as our campus edge router.Symptoms:
- sending small packets from inside zone to outside zone, for example UDP packets without payload
- this way I can generate up to 150.000 pps traffic (testing with packeth software, but we have had a real example with some kind of worm/virus)
- CPU load is about 1% (yes one!) to 2% all time !! (weird)
- ASR response to pings rises very quickly up to 5 seconds which makes box unusable dropping everything what goes through ZBF (so internet connection is gone)
- if I do the ping directly from box, it seems to work fine (no rules from self to outside zone in ZBF)
- if I remove interfaces from inside and outside zone (so disabling ZBF) and do the test again, ASR response goes from normal (0.2ms) up to 2ms (still sending 150.000 pps) and everything seems to work fine)
According to Cisco Datasheets: routing, Qos, Zbf ... on ASR 1000 with RP1, ESP10 should be done in hardware with up to 17.000.000 pps performance.
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Mar 3, 2011
i two 5550 firewall set up for redundance purpose . in failover we define two different ip add one for primary and one for secondary .interface Ethernet0/0 nameif outside security-level 0 ip address xxxx.0.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 standby xxxx.0.0.2!interface Ethernet1/0 nameif inside security-level 100 ip address 10.0.0.12 255.255.255.0 standby 10.0.0.11.default gateway for host will be 10.0.0.12 (primary fw address) however in case of failover , the secondary fw will be up with ip address that was assigned for primary .in this case the secondary ip add 10.0.0.11 is actually nerver used? similarly do i need to have two public ip address for outside (one for primary and one for secondary ) ? or in case if primary fails the secondary comes onlie and take the ip of primary fw . hence i only need to purchase just one ip address.
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Feb 22, 2013
I have cisco 5550 Firewall, one messages appear in syslog server from Firewall, (warning) i want to stop this message from appearing syslog traps.
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Apr 17, 2011
I am having two ASA 5550 firewall running in active/standby mode. With in last two months our secondary firewall got down automatically 3 times. Firewall is running with IOS version 7.1.2. how to proceed further troubleshooting because there are not any logs on firewall.
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May 13, 2011
I have ASA5550 ruuning Version 8.3(1) with inside and outside interfaces as below [code] On the inside : I have a server (10.20.10.36) that need to be accessed from an outside host (Y.Y.131.34) , so I have the below NAT/ACL rules. [code] is it right that I have to add two ACL entry for outside host to the NATed IP of the inside server , then again add another ACL entry from the same outside host to the private IP of my inside server o get this communication done?
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Jan 31, 2012
we had just installed our ASA 5550 with IOS 8.0(2) a couple of week ago.
2 interfaces from each slot are being used ie 0/0 for Branch users comming via MPLS cloud , 0/1 for internal LAN users comming form Core Switch & 1/0 for Server farm LAN , 1/1 for Internet (outside)
the first 3 interface are considered inside with sec set at 100 while the 1/1 is outside with sec at 0.
Last night it suddenly started dropping all connections without any warning or any noticible log form the ASDM logging.
the connection drop would happen for 2 - 3 minutes and would work fine for the next 15 minutes or so..
after conencting the console , we found out that the IOS would suddelny go abrupt and show this display ...
TP-ASA(config)# TP-ASA(config)# TP-ASA(config)# Thread Name: Dispatch UnitPage fault: Address not mapped vector 0x0000000e edi 0x24d184b0 esi 0x0000000d ebp 0x1c6ceaf8 esp 0x1c6ceae0 ebx 0x09e965e0 edx
[Code]....
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Oct 4, 2011
I have looked in the books I have (Cisco ASA, PIX and FWSM; ASA 8.0) and googled a good bit but can't seem to find any specific mention of how to do NAT exemption with v8.4. It seems NAT exemption (NAT 0 access-list) was deprecated. Using ASDM, there's no corresponding menu item for this that is obvious.
We have public addresses inside the ASA and want to allow in/outbound connections using these IP's without NAT. The ASA is a 5550.
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May 21, 2013
I need to understand if ASA 5550 ver 8.2(1) is comptible with IPv6, if not what is the upgrade path to make it IPv6 compatible. The requirement is dual stack of IPv4 and IPv6 should run in the same HA cluster and later will shift IPv6 completely.
The existing infrastructure is equipped with ASA with HA Active/Active mode. The command output for required details are attached here in txt mode.
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Mar 10, 2013
I have Active Standby ASA5550 setup with VPN premium license. A few days back we had a requirement of SSL VPN connection for and we got a temporary from Cisco for same, this license expired and the ASA reverted to it's original license. 3 4 days after this we saw a sudden increase in CPU utilization (upto 90% + -5%) on the ASA during production hours but were not able to figure out the reason, in order to restore the services we failovered the firewall to secondary and everything worked fine. We were suspecting one of the following but there were no logs for any of this
1. The ASA hardware was haivng problem
2. Some client was doing a DoS attack to bring down the ASA (no logs for this as well).
We took a downtime to look further by failovering the ASA back to primary and it worked fine without any issues ruling out the 1st option. We also came across a licesing doc [URL]
Downgrading any license (for example, going from 10 contexts to 2 contexts).
# Note If a temporary license expires, and the permanent license is a downgrade, then you do not need to immediately reload the security appliance; the next time you reload, the permanent license is restored.
As per this doc, sooner or later a restart was required on the ASA. We restarted secondary ASA and everthing was fine but when we restarted the primary ASA by swtiching over to secondary some of the server (not all) in the DMZ stopped working (even ICMP unreachable) and only came back to normal when the primary ASA was restored and working fine (with failover).
The reboot was done by shuting down the physical link between the Core switch and ASA inside individually.
I am not sure what could be the issue that the servers in the DMZ wen unreachable.
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Aug 9, 2010
In my Cisco ASA 5550, I need to set two different syslogs servers, and I need to send the system logs to the first one (only admins login/logout), and the traffic logs and all the rest (informational level) to the second one. Do you know if is it possible or not and, if yes, how to configure it?
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Jun 12, 2011
I would like to work with two ASA's 5550 in HA (Acitve-Standby) like perimetral firewalls and also work with another ASA 5540 but like a SSL VPN Remote Access to end users.Which will be the best topology to this scenary?. Perhaps i need to put the ASA 5540 SSL VPN together with the ASA's in HA directly in a port.
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Apr 26, 2011
I am using an ASA5550 for a complex secure network that has at least six "outside" networks. Each "outside" network is assigned to a specific port each set at level "0". I also have a DMZ, set to level "50". I am having difficulty with passing traffic from a host in the DMZ to all but one of the "outside" networks. Is there a limit to the number of "outside" interfaces? I will provide a redacted config file as soon as possible.
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May 10, 2013
i have Cisco ASA 5550 and i want to do URL filtering using Web sense,can i use Micorsoft Forefront TMG2010 as websense server to do that?
the idea is to filter the HTTP & HTTPS URLs,if the Micorsoft Forefront TMG2010 is not suitable,refer to suitable Websense URL filtering server?
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Oct 3, 2011
I have the following problem, right now we have an ASA 5550 connected to the client´s side. A reset is being received on the client´s side, but when we run the sniffers on both extremes of the network, we can see that the reset is not being sent by the server´s side.
We have narrowed it down to the 5550 ASA, but have found no bug that matches the description.
The characateristics of the reset packet are the following:
- It is the only packet with a TTL of 255.
- Both server and client have very different window sizes, and the reset packet even though has the server´s ip and port as source of the packet, it has the client´s window size.
- It has a correct ack number.
-Before the reset is received, there are a couple of retransmissions of the last packet sent.
- We´re handling a VPN tunnel between both servers.
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Feb 7, 2011
i m looking for asa 5550 product.Part # ASA5550-BUN-K9 - Cisco ASA 5550 Appliance with SW, HA, 8GE+1FE, 3DES/AES
1) does 5550 contains built in CSC / IPS modules.? why i m asking because the "quick refrence guide " indicates that expansion slots are not available.
2) can asa 5550 natively protects natively against networks attacks against virus / worms etc with out CSC OR IPS MODULE.?
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Apr 23, 2013
I am about to carry out a migration from ASA 5550 to ASA 5555-X, however I cannot find any detailed document or reliable tool for this migration.
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May 22, 2012
I cannot logon with adsm anymore.when I run adsm, I type in my pw, and the screen keeps displaying "contacting the device". No timeout, just stays this way.I've updated the java version, no luck.I can connect with SSH with no problem. device = asa5550, 8.2(1) asdm 6.2(1) [code]
notice that there is no "with cookie-based authentication" here -- is this relevant?
Rebooting the device is not really an option.
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May 2, 2012
I have an issue were thousands of connections on the ASA are marked with flags E, below is a visual of the connection. Any ideas what could cause this marking? Also, I can't grasp what the meaing of an outside back connection (ie flags E).
TCP DMZ:X.X.X.X/139 Inside:X.X.X.X/1828, flags E, idle 9h37m, uptime 9h37m, timeout 15s, bytes 0
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Jan 10, 2011
i'm installing a Firewall Cisco ASA 5550 with 8 Gigabit interfaces.
I have installed firmware 8.2.3.
Is it possible to make link aggregation on ASA to have more bandwith?
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Aug 7, 2011
I have a couple of ASA5520 and ASA5550, and I wanted to know if it is worth it to upgrade the software from 8.2(4) to 8.2(5)? Because of the RAM I cannot upgrade to 8.3 for now.
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Jan 8, 2013
I just got a brand new ASA 5550, i configured the port g0/0 on asa with an ip address 192.168.10.1 then configure my computer with ip 192.168.10.2 and default gateway is 192.168.10.1. I'm able to ping the asa from my computer. I remote to ASA thru the console port and try to copy iOS from flash to my pc but it doesn't work.
Cisco asa# copy flash tftp://192.168.10.2/asa804-k8.bin
Source file name []? asa804-k8.bin
Address or name of remote host [192.168.10.2]?
Destination file name [asa804-k8.bin]?
Writing file tftp://192.168.10.2/asa804-k8.bin...
!%Error writing tftp://192.168.10.2/asa804-k8.bin (Timed out attempting to connect)
Cisco asa#
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Apr 6, 2011
I have two box cisco asa 5550 in multiple context mode and failover.
My network topology is:
Outside Network
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DMZ2 Network • • • • (CISCO ASA 5550) • • • • DMZ1 Network
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Inside Netowork
My interface "Inside Network" is full(I think).I can't diagnose this, based on command "sh interface gigabitEthernet"
109042974565 packets input, 100691006385765 bytes
94097614769 packets output, 59002295942465 bytes
999339444 packets dropped
My interface is 1GB, based on the above command, it is full?If interface is full, i have a problem! All the ports on asa firewall are using, how do resolve this? I can compress all data on this interface with class maps and policy maps?
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Apr 22, 2013
We are having Cisco ASA 5550 appliance. from some days i am not able to access this ASA using ASDM. I am able to access ASA using SSH.[code]
At the same time standby firewall works perfectly fine with ASDM. I have tried by reloding the firewall, then it worked for 2 days & again stopped working.
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May 1, 2012
Our users are using Xmanager to connect to a NNM connection which is going through a Cisco ASA5550 with 8.3. The session of Xmanager is getting terminated exactly after 1 hour and the users have to reconnect it again. How can we make the session to be up always, when I am bypassing the Firewall its always up.
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Oct 25, 2011
Is it possible to use ports from 2 SFP and 2 RJ45 Interface on ASA 5550 Module 1.
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Feb 14, 2012
if i can import an ASA 5550 8.2(5) in CSM version 3.3.1?
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Oct 3, 2011
What is the difference between IP throughput routing throughput and firewall throughput
the reason is i am trying to spec a router for a mate who is setting up an online server for an old game ultima online which will have around 300-400 people each pulling around 10kb/sec
I recommended an 880 service router but when he spoke to a guy at the shop they said this would only run at 25mb/sec and he is plugging in to a 100MB/sec line
But the current router that is a home dlink which cost at most 60 Euros on a speed tester can pull 95mb/secI just don’t get how a 60 Euros router can download quicker than a 300-400 Euro router
They said try a ASA5505 that can do 150MB/sec of firewall throughput
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Dec 12, 2012
I have a cable modem connected to a wireless router hard-wired to two separate ps3's. I am looking to get the optimum connection speeds out of my ps3. i have been told to use a switch instead of my router. i also want wireless in my house as well. modem switch (ps3 ps3 router)? if i connect my modem directly to one ps3 my ps3 will not find an ip address will this problem remain if i go through the switch or will it find an ip address? will this optimize my connection? will my connection be better if when not in use i unplug the thernet cable going to the wireless router from the switch? is there any other way to optimise my connection speed on my ps3?
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Jul 27, 2011
We're getting this error message randomly when surfing the Internet. We have websense running on our network to perform web content filtering and are using the ASA for the http/https redirects. We've contacted websense and they said this error message is coming from the ASA, not their product.
ASA-5550
version 7.2.4
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