Cisco Firewall :: Keep ASA5520 Firewall In Sync
Aug 22, 2011
I have two asa 5520 firewalls. one at my primary data center connected to our production Internet feed, and one at my fail over data center connected to a backup internet feed. I was wondering if there was an easy way to keep the firewall rules in sync between the two firewalls. We have failover with our isp that will move our public facing address block from our primary site to our dr site in the event of a disaster so the ip addresses will not change if we were to have to fail over to the DR site. currently i just have to do any changes that i make on the fail over server but would like a way to at least simi-automat this if not fully automat this so that i can eliminate the possibility of human error of a change happening at primary but never getting don at DR.
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May 17, 2012
I have a pair of ASA5520, each has a CSC-SSM module, all specs and licences match and the ASA failover between active and passive firewalls works as expected. However, I am unable to get the two content modules to sync. ASA are running 8.4... and attach diagram show cabling. Each CSC-SSM uses it's connected port as a gateway, although I've tried using both primary and standby IP.
When I try to sync the devices as per the Trend Micro instructions I get the error: "InterScan for CSC SSM could not establish a connection with the failover peer device. Please verify network connectivity with the peer and that the peer is functioning properly, then try again."
All interfaces are up/up. I cannot see the other CSC-SSM in either ASA's arp table. Neither CSC-SSM can ping the other, and none of the guides I've found so far details the pre sync config of the CSC-SSMs.
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May 31, 2011
Our firewall expert has gone off on long term illness leave and I am trying to pick up the pieces :-(
We have an ASA 5520 (local office) talking to another ASA (remote office) via a VPN Tunnel.
My 1st problem is that I cannot ping from my inside network (local) to the outside interface of my remote ASA.
My 2nd is that I have debug enabled on my rules but am not logging anything.
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Dec 22, 2011
With regarding to the firewall ASA5520, i'm using it in my network, all the confiuration are properly configured and working but with the use of proxy address in internet explorer(e.:206.53.155.129/3128) all the blocked contents as easily accessible simply it bypass all the network through firewall.so will u guide me to block the proxy servers.
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Jun 3, 2013
According to the link here:[URL]Starting with Version 8.3(1), it no longer needs to install identical licenses. Typically, we only buy a license only for the primary unit; for Active/Standby failover, the secondary unit inherits the primary license when it becomes active.So I wanna know if there's some additional configuration to synchronize the licenses such as SSL VPN or Context between the primary one and the second one? Or they can just synchronize by default as soon as I finish the failover configuration and when the primary one gets down, the second one will take over the role including licenses automatically?
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Nov 15, 2011
We have ASA running code 8.0.4 with Active/Standby for quite long time. Today when we gave the command wri standby it started sync the config to standby ASA but waited forever.when we checked the show failover, we got the following result.
This host: Secondary - Active
Active time: 1928633 (sec)
slot 0: ASA5540 hw/sw rev (2.0/8.0(4)) status (Up Sys)
Interface PERIMETER-MGMT (10.12.8.1): Normal (Not-Monitored)
Interface OUTSIDE (86.36.xx.xx): Normal (Waiting)
[code].....
When we console to Standby ASA and tried to save (wri mem), we got the following error and also please note the hostname has become default...?
ciscoasa(config)# wri memory
Building configuration...
Command Ignored, Configuration in progress...
[FAILED]
and when we tried to give following command we got this error:
ciscoasa(config)# copy running-config startup-config
Source filename [running-config]?
%Error reading system:/running-config (Configuration temporarily locked)
ciscoasa(config)#
I see here the standby ASA IPS module is down, but can that issue cause not sync the config backup and writing to nvram (save config)..?
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May 8, 2012
I know that I've run into this before but I can't remember the fix. I have a 5510. The 3 interfaces involved are INSIDE, OUTSIDE, and GUEST. Corporate users are allowed to put their iPhones on the Guest network, but the problem is that their Exchange ActiveSync stops working. It is tied to the external DNS name of the OWA server (we'll say webmail.abc.com). So the users are funneled out one public IP on the OUTSIDE interface and are trying to communicate with the outside of the OWA server, which is NATed to another public IP on the same outside interface. What do I need to do on the ASA to allow users on the guest network (behind the GUEST interface) to access the mail server using its public IP (behind the INSIDE interface)
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May 8, 2011
We have a setup of FWSMs configured in single mode in 6509 chassis. Both 6509 are configured in VSS. Recently I have upgraded the firmwre from 4.0(3) to 4.1(3).....before upgradation config sync was not having any problem.
After upgradation...If any one of the FWSM reload..while coming up it gets stuck in config sync and no command we can run on any of the unit and get the error as..
Configuration update in progress by another process. Also on stannby fwsm no running-config displays.
If we used # failover suspend-config on primary and then reloads the standby fwsm...standby boots up with startup config and when # no failover suspend-config command runs on active fwsm..the sync started and completing succssfully within 15 sec..
Also failover works well..with #no failover active..
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Sep 3, 2010
Does Cisco ASA5510 or 5520 can protect DDos attack and sync flood ?I have problem on this, so how can i protect on this, some time i saw on my log like this"sync flood " or "ddos to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" the ip address random .
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Sep 25, 2011
I have a asa5520 with five Internet IP.One for the internet interface and the others are static maped to dmz hosts. It runs rightly until yesterday.Now it will lose the connection to the gateway many times everyday and the dmz hosts can not connect to internet any time. configuration(simplified):
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interface GigabitEthernet0/0
nameif internet
security-level 0
[Code]....
I called ISP to check,when ISP clear their router's ARP, the asa will lose the connection at the same time and then the ISP's router couldn't learn the ASA's MAC. After I 'clear arp' manually,The ISP's router can learn the ASA's MAC and the connection recovered,but the DMZ's cann't access internet still (of course,There is no problem between DMZ and ASA ,I ping the internet gateway from DMZ host and can not get any reply.).
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Oct 3, 2011
We have 2 x ASA5520 and I upgraded this to 8.2.2 last year, I see 8.2.5 and now 8.4 is out. If we are having no issues, is it best just to leave it as it is? I can see a couple of features I may find useful in 8.2.5, but 8.4 seems like a huge jump and a risky one too.
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May 8, 2011
I have one firewall ASA5520, are very slow
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Mar 7, 2011
I am trying to introduce an ASA5520 to my network based on the following diagram: ISP Internet ------> ASA5520 ------- > Cisco Router ------> LAN. The problem is I cannot ping the ASA from the LAN. I can ping it from inside the router. I already allow ICMP within ASA. If i remove the cisco router and replace it by a swich, I can ping the ASA with NO problem.
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May 16, 2011
We want to use ASA5520 but both Firewall have different CPU. One has CPU Pentium 4 2400 MHz and another has Pentium 4 Celeron 2000 MHz. Can it be configured for replica / failover?
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Apr 19, 2011
We have 2 firewalls on PIX facing the Internet and connected to interface e1 (behind it) an ASA version 8.3 Both the PIX (Firewall facing) and the ASA are on the same subnet.
By using Routing statements and statics I have been able to reroute specific traffic to the ASA5520 version 8.3 Now I need to inverse the 2 devices. The ASA5520 will be facing the Internet and the PIX will be behind it.Unfortunately the ASA5520 is refusing to route the traffic to the PIX. The access-lists are open accordingly and a NAT on the ASA has been created.
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May 31, 2013
i have my router connected to ISP then my router directly connected to my ASA5520....i use also ASA5520 as my DHCP Server and i was wondering with the DHCP Server function of ASA 5520 because if i use the ASA 5520 LAN ip ...all workstation will not be able to browse anything from the internet unless i use my ISP DNS IP which they gave me?
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Sep 4, 2012
Get the following log message on secondary ASA console output when turning on the ASA failover function?
"Mate's service module (CSC SSM 6.6.1125.0) on slot 1 is different from mine (CSC SSM 6.6.1125.0)"
After that the secondary cannot join as a failover unit and shows in disabled status.We have the same model ASA & CSC module and each pair of them are in same firmware (CSC 6.6.1125.0 with ASA5520 8.4(4)1), when I shutdown both the csc modules, the ASA failover works fine.
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Dec 15, 2012
I am using a squid proxy behind an ASA5520 firewall to collect the users to the internet. Squid is just necessary to log what is going on in order to find a quick solution when the internet slows down.
Considering that I have unlimited licenses and I would like to get rid of squid, I wonder if the ASA has some functionalities to track which websites are being used and how much traffic is generated. If there is not, I would like to know if Cisco offers a good product to replace Squid.
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Jun 8, 2011
Upgraded an ASA5520 from 7.x to 8.4 in one step? Release notes for 8.4 state that you can "...upgrade from any previous release directly to 8.4..." I've read the previous version release notes and see the various changes in NAT etc that 8.3 made.
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Jul 5, 2011
My customer had 2 asa5520 version:8.0(5)20 and LMS 4.0.1.Two Firewall are "unknow" on LMS, why ?Normally, LMS manages ASA with version 7 min.
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Jan 5, 2012
Any limits on the number of IPSec sessions an ASA5520 can support over a DSL connection?
Currently, as we increase the number of IPSec VPN tunnels, our LAN switches connected to the DSL/ASA start seeing CRC/input errors. Tried different LAN ports for both DSL/ASA connections - same reults (CRCs and errors). Swapped ASA for PC running 1 IPSEC w/HD video and no issues.
VPN connection bandwidth demand 50% of DSL capacity, so not exceeding DSL bandwidth. Errors get so bad that all VPN sessions drop - sometimes VPN sessions re-establish while other instances a DSL modem reboot is required.
cause of LAN switch connections seeing errors with 4+ VPN sessions established on ASA across a DSL Internet circuit?
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Jan 16, 2012
I'm trying to configure an ASA 5520 with cut-through proxy feature. The user is required to be authenticated when trying to access an outside resource from the inside. This is a test lab before it is implemented in production. [code]
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May 12, 2011
I have a pair of brand new 5520s I am in the middle of commission. After carving out all the DMZs etc I needed I realized that I really neede another physical NIC, not just another VLAN off a configured nic. [code]I am running 8.3(2). How can I turn these "Not used" interfaces into useable ones?
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May 22, 2013
I have Cisco ASA5520 with a 8.4 code in GNS3. I have a problem pinging to the internet. On the ASA console, I can ping to outside world, but on vpc I cannot ping the outside world. But I can ping the ASA Inside interface and other VLANs, no problem. [code]
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Feb 23, 2011
I have a question about access-lists on ASA: (5520 running 8.4)Often I want to permit all traffic from networks behind an interface (let's say DMZ in this example) to Internet, but NOT to internal networks. Then I first configure a Deny from DMZ to all internal network and then a Permit to ANY. If I forget the first Deny I will allow all traffic also to my internal networks. Is it possible to configure an access-list that permit all traffic from a network to all networks that are reachable via a given interface? In this example: Permit all traffic from DMZ to all networks that are reachable via the Outside-interface? This should permit traffic to Internet and deny traffic to internal networks in one statement.If I specify the outside-interface as the destination only traffic to the interface itself will be allowed.
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Oct 31, 2011
I've got an annoying problem with my ASA 5520.I have traffic going from the inside interface (security level 100) to the outside interface (security level 0) with a global PAT applied to the outside interface address for all inside traffic - and I can't seem to traceroute through the firewall.The ruleset is simple - basically, allow any IP from inside to outside. The NAT is simple - PAT all traffic unless exempted to the IP address of the outside interface.If I do the trace from my internet edge router it works fine - so I know it's not soemthing my uplinks are filtering - but if I do it through the firewall, I get perfect responses until the hop where it hits the firewall interface - then nothing.Is there something I am missing that I need to do to allow traceroute to just work with all the rest of the traffic?
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Apr 11, 2013
how do I verify if CG-NMS is enabled on ASA5520. I just need to know if it's enable/install to be enabled and used?Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.0(5)28..Device Manager Version 6.1(5)51
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Aug 15, 2012
I have a cisco ASA5520 box running with IOS version8.2(5)13 where default policy map is applied globally. But I have not seen any traffic being inspected through included protocol defined under policy map.All configuration seems to be ok for me.
service-policy global_policy global
Global policy:
Service-policy: global_policy
Class-map: inspection_default
Inspect: ftp, packet 0, drop 0, reset-drop 0
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Mar 27, 2012
I can no longer SSH to a primary active firewall. It had all of a sudden stopped working. However I am able to SSH to the secondary standby firewall without any problems. I did try to regenerate the RSA key on the primary fw, but still unable to connect. The only way I can connect to it is by using telnet.
I ran the "show asp table socket" command and I'm seeing port 22 listening on the primary IP address (not the standby), foreign address is 0.0.0.0:*. I did a packet capture on port 22 on the inside inside, seeing my request hit the fw and then right away a reset back from the fw.
version 8.2.(5)
model ASA5520
I'm hitting a bug in the software version I'm running? Or what else can I check before rebooting the primary fw?
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Jun 5, 2011
We are planning to upgrade IOS on a 5520 pair, from 7.2.4 to 8.2.4, and cause minimum outage. And according to the documentation, we can do the zero downtime IOS upgrade by failing over to the standby ASA and back.
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So, can during this process, can we go from 7.2.5 to 8.0.5 (last maintenance release), or do we have to move to 8.0.2 first ?
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Apr 5, 2011
I'm trying to setup a zone behind my firewall with complete publicly routeable IP addresses for 3 servers. The reason I'm doing this is I am in the network setup stage of an OCS implementation, and OCS connections don't behave well with NAT.
My device is a ASA5520. I have an internal zone, and a dmz zone. These are done via standard NAT configurations.
My question is this:
Is it possible to setup connectivity to the outside with internal servers that have Public IP's directly on their NIC's? Another little detail of interest is that this ip space is seperate than the one that's on current Outside interface facing our ISP. However we own both address space.
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Apr 6, 2011
I am in the process of setting up the ASA5520 with the latest 8.4 firmware latest Anyconnect 3.0.
Unfortunately, the internal memory is sufficient enough for the ASA ASDM only. It says not enough memory when I tried to tftp the Anyconnect pkg.There is a external flash slot at the back of the ASA, I've inserted a 256mb CF card but when I do a show disk1: it shows
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Jul 22, 2012
What is the difference /how to show part number,part code and serial number on cisco ASA 5520 series.succeed to get serial number by command show activation-key detail..how to get part code /part number?
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