Cisco Firewall :: ASA 5585 Transparent Mode With Multiple Contexts
May 6, 2013
We are deploying the Cisco ASA 5585 in transparent mode with multiple contexts, the port-channel was configured to connect to the core switches using dot1q trunk. We are experiencing an issue which is the core switches are configured loop guard globally, therefore the port-channel connected to the firewalls will be put into inconsistent state when the failover happen, and the two firewalls' failover can not fulfill the failover at last.
I have two queries below:
1. Does the firewall allow the BPDU passing through when it is in standby mode, for example, secondary firewall is active for group 2 and standby for group 1. does the secondary firewall block the BPDU from the vlans under group1 ?
2. Can we disable the loop guard feature on the switch port-channel or is there any other way to solve this issue ?
We are going to deploy a active/active setup of 2 ASA 5585's. Here we will implement a concept of security zones through context's where different services will be firewall through a separate firewall context. will a security context consume 1 or 2 licenses because we are running in a Active/active setup? Right now I got completely confused when my manager asked me that question.I would say that we only use on security context license - but since we are running in a active/active setup - even though the other instance is standby - will it consume a context license? We are using ASA OS 8.4.x.
I have setup a 5515-X in transparent multi-mode and setup 5 security contexts with inside and outside ports, one admin and 4 others. The problem I have run into is setting up a management IP for each context. On one of my other transparent firewalls in production we were able to apply an IP to the security context (not interface) however the new firewall is running the latest software and this same functionality is not available. The only options for IP in context mode is IP AUDIT. So my next plan was to create sub-interfaces of the management interface and assign one to each context however the 5515-x does not allow sub-interfaces on the management interface. How I setup a management IP on each context?
Another interesting thing i read is that the managment IP assigned to a context (if i could figure out how to set it up), has to be in the same subnet as the data interface which if fine but it also says that the management interface should not be connected to the same switch as the data interface because of MAC address table update issues, meaning that i could not use a sub-interface of one of the already configured context ports.
Is it possible to have context in transperant mode and routed mode. Means if i need three context then 2 of them is in routed mode and one of them is in transperant mode. If yes then how, i can 't find this info in cisco website.?I am havin 5585-x and asa version 8.4?
We are currently looking at design models for a Multi-Tenancy solution.The firewall layer will be 2 X ASA's running 9.X to take advantage of VPN's in multiple context mode and mixed L3 and L2 contexts.
We will be delivering services through multiple L3 contexts (between 2 and 5 L3 contexts for services) and 1 transparent context for customers infrastructure who will then have virtual firewalls for NAT's and VPN's etc withing their own environment.
I am not very experienced with IPS so my query is; if we were to get an IPS license for both ASA's how would the IPS fit in, can we use it to inspect traffic for all the L3 contexts and the transparent context?
I have a problem whit the configuration of a Firewall ASA 5585 whit the BVI Interface and transparent Firewall, I have 2 VLAN that i want to interconnect.
The problem is whit the configuration of VLAN. The traffic does not cross the FW.
if on the ASA 5512-X virtual contexts are supported with version 9.1 ?
I found different information on the Cisco web, the ASA datasheet says it is supported but in the configuration guide I found exactly the opposite information.
Cisco ASA Series General Operations CLI Configuration Guide 9.1 and 8.6 [URL]
Cisco ASA 5500 and ASA 5500-X Series Next- Generation Firewalls for Small Offices and Branch Locations Data Sheet (Updated) [URL]
I am looking to deploy a cloud/borderless network solution and cannot get my head around how the licenses (AnyConnect Mobile and essentials) will be applied in a multiple context deployment. Any correct documentation.
we are planning to use multiple DMZ's in our organization, we are using cisco asa 5585, what is the advantage and disadvantage for using multiple DMZ's?. and which better to use one or two DMZ's or split every service in different DMZ ?
I would like to configure an ASA5512-X in firewall transparent mode, but I am having trouble getting ASDM to lauch when I do.
I have created a BVI interface with an IP address, and I hve enabled the mangement interface, but ASDM does not lauch when I enter the IP adress of the BVI I created.
Apprently you need to use the bridge-group command to assign an interfce to a bridge group. When I enter this command at the (config-if) prompt for Management 0/0, this command is not recognized.
What are the general steps for configuring the management interface to be able to launch ASDM in transparent mode?
Is it possible for an 5505 ASA to be in transparent mode such as ethernet0/0 outside, ethernet 0/1 inside, and use ethernet 0/2 for syslog only on a seperate network other than the one that 0/0 and 0/1 is using. The tranparent part being on a 192.168.168.X/24 and the syslog server being on say a 10.2.1.X/24 network?
I just have 1 question. I am going to be getting U Verse installed at my house and have been having a hard time finding this in the documentation. The modem I am going to be getting is the 3800HGV-B. Over on the ATT forum users are stating that the modem needs every MAC of every potential IP. I thought about using it's DMZ Plus mode but I am getting a block of 8 IP's and it doesn't seem to play nice unless it see's 5 different MAC's. Right now I have my 5505 in routed mode so I don't believe it passes the MAC of the client's through. Will the ASA pass the MAC of the client's through to the modem with the appropriate ACL's applied?
i have a ASA5510 in the office, that already configured 3 context, namely, admin, user, server.in the server context, the last running config was not saved, and there was a power trip last friday night. 1 of the sub interface was affected, and i need to recreate that interface.I am getting the below error, it only allow me to do changes those pre-defined interface.how to I create extra sub interface?
We've in our company a Cisco Asa 5510 v8.4(3), Asdm 6.4(7) and a SSM-CSC-10-K9. The firewall is in transparent mode. I get an exchange 2003 SP2 server behind. When users trying to send mailing lists with many recipients (above 300), the Exchange server didn't send these mails. I'm pretty sure that this problem come from the ASA Firewall, because when I plug my server directly on my Internet Connection, the mailing list is sent. I've search on the web, and disable "ESMTP Inspection", but it didn't work. [code]
Recently i have configured ASA5550 with 2 Contexts in Transparent mode. Traffic can pass through a single Firewall context but through both contexts it couldn't.
have a Cisco ASA that I am trying to configure in a unique way, I want it to perform a variety of tasks;
VPN SSL VPN Tunnels Firewall Inside to Outside via versa
But the difficult task, is creating a DMZ with devices that are assigned fully routed IP addresses from our ISP directly, these are H323 and SIP devices that cannot use NAT, and must have a fully routed IP address assigned to them.
Obviously the problem I have with the Firewall in its default routed mode, is that it wont allow me to overlap IP addresses on the outside interface with the DMZ interface.
Could the Firewall be configured for Transparent mode between Outside and DMZ, but Routed mode between Outside and Inside?
Recently, I unable to configure the failover on bridge group in transparent mode . I have five interfaces .out of this only 3 is showing in the show run config . Whether I can config failover on on of the data interfaces.
I have the ASA 5520 with the version ASA Version 7.2(4) <context>
i need to configure a ASA 5505 in transparent mode.learned from Internet, my configuration is :
int e0/0 --- vlan 1---->nameif outside int e0/4 --- vlan 2------> nameif inside gloable ip is 172.17.104.10 255.255.255.0 http server enable http 172.17.104.0 255.255.255.0 inside
when i connect the outside interface to one PC with ip addr 172.17.104.194 my PC connect to inside interface with ip 172.17.104.249 cannot ping each other even when i set rules as permit any any on both direction
I've setup my Cisco ASA 5505 in transparent mode. I have a Cisco 1841 connecting to the ISP (DHCP client) and F0/0 for inside. The 1841 is the DHCP server. I have my ASA 5505 behind the 1841 in transparent mode (Vlan 1 for Outside and Vlan 1 for inside). The router config is good as when you connect a computer straight to the inside interface I get DHCP and can go to internet, no problems what so ever. But When you're trying to go through ASA isn't not working. if I add a ip any any statement to the access list it will work but having an "ip any any" in a access list is like having no firewall at all.
ciscoasa(config)# sh run : Saved : ASA Version 8.2(4) ! firewall transparent hostname ciscoasa enable password zmQ6OnxvsOOEDNAy encrypted
I have a cisco ASA5505 configured in transparent mode. This evening we attempted to plug a couple of new servers in but they simply didnt work, despite our test server working absolutely fine. The server IP's are all in a network object group (the same as the test server) and they're all using the same ACLs etc. I'm relatively new to configuring cisco equipment.
the only thing I can think of is a static route I had to add to get the managemet IP to work might be causing problems.route outside 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 XX.XXX.132.1 1(IP addresses obfuscated- servers are all in the same range so assume XX.XXX is the same across all IP's).
I understand that in transparent mode an ASA5510 would only be able to have two interfaces, inside and outside. My question is could one of those logical interfaces be an LACP'd interface, made up of two physical interfaces. Topology below. I understand that the router and ASA5510 are SPOF here, so it is a bit of a moot point, but we're connecting already existing infrastructures together!
I have a ASA 5510 that is connected to my ISP and the inside interface that is connected to my router. I have a /30 and need to determine if the configuration of x.x.x.121/30 which is my ISP and also the BVI address on the ASA. The inside router address is x.x.x.122/30 same subnet as my ISP will allow me to pass traffic. Management interface works using a different ip address but not able to get the traffic to pass traffic out to the internet thru the ASA
ISP-------->ASA-------->Router
Bottom Line is that I only have one usable address that is being used by the router and the ISP and ASA are using the other. Will this work?
I have an ASA5520 in location A with an ISP connection and a matching ASA5520 in location B with a separate ISP connection. We have fiber connecting the two locations and vlans passing back and forth so I will be able to configure the failover via a vlan as well as extend the ISP's to each location via vlans. The Active/Active configuration with the multiple security contexts does not seem to be an issue but how is a redundant ISP configured in this mode?We want to have context A using the ASA in location A with ISP1 as the primary and failing over to ISP 2 in locaiton B We also want to have context B using the ASA in location B with ISP 2 as the primary and failing over to ISP1 in location A Would route tracking provide the desired result? Is there a better option?
I m trying to set my friewall in my network. The network is very simple. I have my router in 192.168.16.1 255.255.255.0 (mac-address 58-98-35-2a-4c-39) I have my switch in 192.168.16.26 255.255.255.0 (mac-address 00-19-99-5d-1f-43) and i have my firewall ASA between the router and the switch in 192.168.16.250 255.255.255.0 (mac-address 64-9e-f3-ba-28-c9)
So i need to configure 3 interface in my ASA. - OUTSIE e0/0(I call it INTERNET) - INSIDE e0/1(I call it LAN) - MANGEMENT m0/0(I call it MANAGEMENT)
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But with this config when I plug the firewall, i dont have access to internet anymore.
I am new to cisco ASA. I need to configure ASA 5520 in transparent bridge mode. [code] I need to place the new asa firewall in transparent mode. How to configure the firewall in transparent bridgmode.
I have a need to manage the 5505 outside of the 2 interfaces however I see it documented that Management access is only via the data path interface. This won't work for me because there will be NO management access on the data network being bridged through the firewall. Is there any option outside of going to routed mode or moving to the 5510?
I've been asked to deploy an ASA in Transparent Mode because of concerns of putting another layer 3 hop between PE and CE routers running BGP.
Is there some problem with allowing BGP to flow freely through an ASA the is also terminating site to site and remote access vpn tunnels?
I just don't see the need for Transparent Mode here and you cannot have a standard DMZ setup with Transparent Mode: you have to use bridge groups to provide for multiple interfaces on the ASA and then have an external router route between those bridge groups.
what I'm missing here as to why Transparent Mode is needed (not needed)
We have a 5580 that we want to connect to each of our 7K's as an internal firewall. To minimize hassle, we will setup the ASA in transparent mode.I have been working on this all day today and have run into a stopping point. If I put vlan 20 on a subinterface on Te7/0 which will connect to N7K_1 it works great. When I try to put that same vlan on Te7/1 which connects to N7K_2, I get an error that says the vlan is already assigned to another interface.Our local Cisco SE told us that this would work.
My problem is that not all of our servers/systems are dual homed to both 7K's so I have to be able to get this to work because of potential asymmetric routing issues that we will be dealing with.How to get the 5580 to work in this configuration and can you share your config with me ?Using the redundant interface command isnt an option because I need for both interfaces to be able to route over both 7K's at all times.
