Cisco Firewall :: Replaced A PIX 515E With A Pair Of ASA 5520
Aug 8, 2011
A few weeks ago, I replaced a PIX 515E with a pair of ASA 5520's. We have a few basic web applications behind the ASA's. Nothing complex; just port 80/443 traffic. During the swap, we basically just copied the config from the PIX to the ASA. So the config is virtually identical.
Since the swap, we have one small set of users who gets timed out when trying to get to the application. This small set of users are scattered across the state of Alaska, and they are all accessing the Internet via a satellite connection. All other users across North America can access the application just fine.
Since the satellite connections are relatively slow, but they worked fine when going through the PIX, I suspect the issue is a difference in the default TTL (or similar parameter) between the PIX and the ASA.
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Oct 31, 2012
i am trying to setup a failover pair on Cisco asa 5520 - need a state full failover. Do i need two ports dedicated to obtain the above - one for LAN based failover and one for state full fail over ? also do i need a switch in between to connect them ?
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Apr 15, 2013
I have a running ASA5520 in my network and recently we plan to add a failover pair as a standby unit for the running asa. Both of the ASA have the same specs and software. the only thing that the soon to be secondary ASA does not have is the AnyConnect Essential license. is it still possible for the unit to be the standby unit?
below is the license capture from both of the unit.
Running ASA:
Licensed features for this platform:
Maximum Physical Interfaces : Unlimited
Maximum VLANs : 150
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Mar 20, 2012
We have recently got 2 of our Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls through RMA. These are supposed to run in a Active/Active Failover Pair. There was only 1 RMA request that was opened for both the firewalls. We have received only 1 Activation key for this RMA request for both the firewalls. Just want to check with you if this Activation key will work on both firewalls or do we need a get a seperate one for the other box.
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Mar 3, 2011
I have one ASA 5520 up and runnign, with complete configuration (ssl customization, DAP, CSD...) with bunch of files on flash drive, etc. I am using software 8.3Now I received one 5520 that I want to use failover, it is with 8.3, I will make sure that ASDM is also the same on both...
So, my question is how to make my running ASA to become primary and to push all info (config, files on flash, etc) to new ASA?
I found few examples, but nothing tells me how to force one ASA to be the source for sync.
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Dec 12, 2011
We have an ASA5520 with VPN working fine.We replaced the router, which upgraded the OS from v12.2 to v15.0. We duplicated all the addressing and routing statements from the old router. Now the VPN still connects but the outside host can't ping the inside host anymore. The outside host can't ping any further than the inside interface of the router (10.4.1.1). The Router can ping the outside host, so I know the tunnel is up.I suspect there is a difference in the OS versions that is tripping us up. Perhaps in the way that we have reused the 10.x.x.x address range?
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Aug 22, 2011
I need to redo the configuration on the new one?
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May 29, 2011
Have a 5510 in Routed mode, simple Static NAT to interface two networks (inside_1 is my private space, and outside_1 the larger intranet that hosts heavy traffic). outside_2 faces internet via pppoe just for VPN purposes.
It was operating fine for one year then one port broke (outside_2, internet), leaving no vpn. We followed RMA service replacement and the new unit came with upgraded SW (8.0.4) than the one the original config was created on (8.0.2).
To ease the replacement, I did downgrade the sw boot image. Then I did restore the config by tftp to the startup-config and then a reload. Everything seems to load fine.
Problem is that testing reveals some sort of issue: I can ping some of the intranet hosts but can't reach gateway, thus larger segment of hosts become unreachable. It seems as if the NAT mechanism can't find the next gateway where to hop. For debug practice, I've enabled all the icmp stuff so ping wasn't being blocked by the device.
Being given the fact that this config was up and running prior to the replacement, I've no reason to suspect any mysconfigured items (ie routes, NAT, access-list), but obviously I'm obfuscated and can't see what else I'm missing.
How is that possible that the PING only reaches certain hosts? Pinging to 10.15.5.90 works (Route is 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 to 10.15.5.126 (gw)), but pinging to the gateway itself doesn't (10.15.5.126) and even worse, hosts like 10.15.167.210 do not respond either.
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Jun 20, 2012
I am trying to setup a VPN tunnel between a PIX and an ASA. I went through the IPSec Site to site wizzard using the same settings but I cannot ping hosts from either side.
Here is the setup
ASA 5520
Device Manager 6.4(5)106
Software version 8.0(5)
Inside network 10.0.0.0/24
Inside IP 10.0.0.1
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Sep 7, 2011
How I can actively monitor the interfaces and overall status of 2 x ASA 5500s in an Active/Standby configuration?
I can setup monitoring of the interfaces on the Active member but I'm not sure how to manage the Standby member?
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Mar 11, 2012
We have a pair of N7K distribution switches connected to a pair of N7K Aggregation switches.We run vPC on both pairs of n7k's.
-n7k-d1 has two interfaces in a Port-Channel connecting to n7k-a1 & n7k-a2. (PC1)
-n7k-d2 also has two interfaces in a Port-Channel connecting to n7k-a1 & n7k-a2. (PC2)
My problem is that Spanning-Tree is blocking PC2 and all traffic from n7k-d2 is traversing the Peer-Link before reaching the Aggregation layer. Is this the best design for connecting two pairs of n7k's with vPC or if a better design would be to connect all 4 links into the same Port-Channel and vPC?
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Jun 13, 2012
I have an Pix 515E firewall with Pix724-33.bin IOS. I just want to know that does this IOS support SNMPV3 or I will have to upgarde it with some other version.
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Jan 16, 2013
Ive got a problem with passing traffic through a Cisco 515e firewall.im trying to telnet to devices on the inside net, 172.16.x.x fom an outside net 10.x.x.x? ive configured a group called infrastructure and added the 10.x.x.x addresses.ive configured acl 101 inbound on the outside interface:
access-list 101 permit tcp object-group INFRASTRUCTURE any eq telnet
theres a route to the inside net:
inside 172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0 172.16.163.1
and theres a translation:
static (inside,outside) 10.4.4.34 10.4.4.34 netmask 255.255.255.255
when i try and connect, using a packet capture I can see traffic from 10.4.4.34 to the inside device 172.x.x.x on the inside interface but i cant see the traffic leave the outside interface ive used the same group infrastructure group before to connect to VM machines on the 172.x.x.x net on RDP and this wrks ok. access-list 101 permit tcp object-group INFRASTRUCTURE object-group VMs eq 3389
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Nov 25, 2012
I am trying to set the PIX firewall to transparent mode.After I set it to transparent firewall, I allowed all icmp, tcp, udp traffics.Currently, any devices in the inside network can get the ip automatically from DHCP server in the outside network but cannot ping to any servers in the outside network either access the internet.Do I need additional confiration on the firewall?
Here's the configuration:
PIX Version 7.0(1)
firewall transparent
names
!
interface Ethernet0
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Nov 11, 2012
I have a pair of ASA5510 currently running as a failover pair. For some reason we need to move one of the firewall to another site, is there any best practice on splitting up the failover pair then I can re-configure the secondary unit offline?
I'm thinking to power down the secondary unit, unplug it from the network totally then erase the configuration on the secondary unit on console so I can re-configure it. For the primary unit, I will disable the faiolver config by "no failover" on the primary unit. Is that necessarily all thing for splitting up the failover cluster?
Hardware: ASA5510, 256 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 4 Celeron 1600 MHz
Internal ATA Compact Flash, 256MB
BIOS Flash M50FW080 @ 0xffe00000, 1024KB(code)
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Aug 17, 2011
I am a bit unclear as to the upgrade path I should take - I have 2 ASA 5510s in active/standby running 8.0(4)34 and would like to upgrade to 8.2.5. Do I need to first upgrade to 8.0.(5) before upgrading to 8.2.5, or can I just jump straight to 8.2.5?
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Aug 26, 2011
Is this this possible to set up two as a redundant pair as you can do with say a pair of 5510s?
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Jan 6, 2012
I'll be upgrading an HA pair of ASA 5520s next week, and wanted to clarify the procedure. I read "Upgrading an Active/Standby Failover Configuration" at [URL] which suggests placing the image on both units, updating boot statements, then issuing failover reload-standby. But I was wondering if there's a way to a way to be a bit safer. I'd like to modify the standby unit, without affecting the config on the active. So I'd like to modify the boot statement on the standby without modifying the active config. That way incase there's a problem and the active reboots, it won't upgrade.
Can I modify the config on the standby without affecting the active? Then I'd like to test the newly upgraded unit with our production traffic. Would that simply be no failover active, and then once the standby becomes active -- test traffic? Once everything is okay, I would upgrade the second unit, and fail traffic back.
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Dec 6, 2012
Preparing to upgrade the IOS on a failover pair of ASA 5580's and was wandering what is gonna happen after I've upgraded the IOS on the standby unit and rebooted. How is the active unit going to react when it sees an IOS mismatch prior to me making the standby the primary and upgrading it's IOS ?
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May 20, 2013
I have Pix firewall 515e on inside interface its has configured with IP 192.168.0.254.And Global Nating is configured.
global (outside) 1 interface
nat (inside) 1 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 0 0
I want i configured Global nating only for only specific IP address E.g 192.168.0.0-192.168.0.30 and 192.168.0.200-192.168.0.254?How i do this?
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Feb 6, 2012
I am looking to add the IPS module to my ASA 5510's. I am contemplating only purchasing one module and placing it in the active ASA. I am willing to accept that in a failure scenario I will loose the IPS functionality until the primary ASA is recovered. I have not had a chance to talk to my SE to see if this is even possible. Has anyone attempted a deployment such as this? Will it work and is it supported?
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Jan 17, 2012
Can I upgrade Active/standby pair from 7.2(4) to 8.0(5)25 directly or need to upgrade to 8.0.2/4 first? Upgrade an Active/Standby Failover ConfigurationComplete these steps in order to upgrade two units in an Active/Standby failover configuration:Download the new software to both units, and specify the new image to load with the boot system command.Refer to Upgrade a Software Image and ASDM Image using CLI for more information.Reload the standby unit to boot the new image by entering the failover reload-standby command on the active unit as shown below:active#failover reload-standbyWhen the standby unit has finished reloading and is in the Standby Ready state, force the active unit to fail over to the standby unit by entering the no failover active command on the active unit.active#no failover activeNote: Use the show failover command in order to verify that the standby unit is in the Standby Ready state.Reload the former active unit (now the new standby unit) by entering the reload command:newstandby#reloadWhen the new standby unit has finished reloading and is in the Standby Ready state, return the original active unit to active status by entering the failover active command:newstandby#failover activeThis completes the process of upgrading an Active/Standby Failover pair.
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Apr 13, 2011
I currently have two 5540's in an Active/Standby pair. The primary unit failed on February 12th, so the secondary ASA is now the active one. My question is this - we have made a lot of changes since February 12th and I am planning on fixing this failover issue over the weekend. Will the secondary (now active) FW sync it's config to the non-active FW, or will the failed FW sync it's out-of-date config - removing any changes that we've made in the last month or so.
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Jun 11, 2009
we are running two failover pairs of asa (5510, 5505) in two different locations in active/standby configurations.Is it possible to access the inside ip of the standby unit via vpn terminated by the active unit? It's only for monitoring.With our configuration here it is not.Is that possible in general?
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Jun 28, 2011
Since the "zero-downtime upgrade" is not supported, I would like to validate the process I put together for upgrading a failover pair of asa5550 with the characteristics below. Specifically I am concerned with the role of the standby during the upgrade. This is my setup:
.- single context mode
.- active/standby
.- current firmware asa821-k8.bin / asdm-621.bin
.- role: firewall and VPN concentrator for segmented server farm network. Dynamic/static/exemption NAT heavily used.
My target is asa842-k8.bin / asdm-645.bin and I am doing a two step upgrade (8.2(1) -> 8.3(1) -> 8.4(2)) to avoid the "unidirectional" attribute and CSCtf89372 bug issues. This is a short version of what I have in mind:
.- Verify stability of failover pair and make adequate backups before beginning.
.- plug into the console of active, ssh into active and standby.
.- vpn/act(config)# no failover ( disable failover from active )
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After reboot, point to 8.4(2) and reload again. Same concern regarding the standby unit.
I understand there might be configuration tweaks needed to the NAT configuration. After second reboot test connectivity and if successful, on active "failover", "write standby" and "failover reload-standby". Otherwise "downgrade" and back to the drawing board.
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Oct 6, 2012
I have the following network.2 WAN links termination on my PIX 515e and all internal users connected to third interface.
Problem I am facing is that I have assign manual IP to users with some have full access to Internet while others have limited.
The users are changing their IP address while others are offline and I want to restrict them.
The only way I can think off is by binding IP to MAC as e.g ( Active wall software). But can it be done on PIX 515e and if so how?
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Dec 28, 2011
I've got a router on which I run a backup/media/print server, a couple of computers and a voip box. My router has only four ethernet lan sockets which are thus all occupied by the above, but I need to attach at least one further device b
Secondly, could a splitter such as >> this one << do the job? I'm guessing this basically split a single 4-pair ethernet connection into two 2-pair ethernet connections.
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Aug 14, 2012
[code] I would like to the ASA5510 Base license upgrade to Security Plus license. But after the upgrade is still the license of the Base.I think I was wrong option selected in the process of upgrading, how should I do to be successful upgrade
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Jun 19, 2012
I have ASA-SM failover pair in two Catalyst 6500 switches. I send from switch to ASA-SM management VLAN 1234 to admin context for management purposes. I have another 3 contexts on ASA-SM. Can I have same managemenet VLAN1234 on each ASA-SM context? Can it work?
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Apr 24, 2012
I have two ASA 5505's with Security Plus licenses on both.I am trying to force them to becoming an HA pair using active/standby.When I enable failover I get this message:
Mate's license (Licensed Cores ) is not compatible with my license (Licensed Cores ). Failover will be disabled.Do I need to apply new licenses to the ASA's?
Device licence details (same on both):Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.2(1) [code] This platform has an ASA 5505 Security Plus license.
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May 13, 2012
I have erased the Cisco image from my PIX 515E, and while i tried to load a new image its asking for activation key. I tried its old key. but no use.
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Sep 5, 2012
I have a PIX 515 Ewhich does authentication for SSH via RADIUS protocol and fails over to the local database if radius server goes offline. But when the radius server comes back online, authentication still takes place through LOCAL and not the radius server. Following are the commands:
aaa-server RADIUS protocol radius
aaa-server RADIUS max-failed-attempts 3
aaa-server RADIUS deadtime 10
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Dec 15, 2011
\I just configure my PIX 515E with version 7.0(4) and having problems to get traffic out on eth0 (if name outside). There is no problems between different VLAN ,all VLANs are configure on eth1. It is also possible to accass services on VLAN 10 (DMZ) from outside. The only thing I see in syslog is "Built Outbound" and "Teardown".
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