I always keep my frequently used files in my FTP server, at the same time, and i have my password saved in my FTP client in my laptop as well. So when i need to login to my FTP server from another machine, i was like “hmm…. what was my password now?”
Since FTP is run via plain text, there is no encryption at all. So i have recovered my password via TCPDUMP and the username and password are “everyone”.
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Setting up a policy based site to site IPSec VPN tunnel with static IP address is quite stright forward in Cisco ASA, but what if one of the end point is using dymanic IP address?
In this lab, I will be using 2 virtual ASA (9.6(2)) to create a site to site IPSec VPN tunnel, as well as setting up Cisco VPN client in one of the ASA with static IP address.
The ASA-F14 is the one with static IP address, and the ASA-F16 is using dynamic IP address.
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The beaut of MPLS VPN is to have multi tenants running over the same MPLS core network and each tenant are prevented to access other tenants networks. But what if the 2 different tenants want to connect to each other?
In the lab below, we have 2 different tenants and they are 1120020010 (RT:200010) in Router 12 and 1030010010 (RT:100010) in Router 03. By default, the ASAs connected to these VRFs cannot communicate since they are in 2 different VRF network. In this case, I will be using Cisco IOS and Juniper MX to let 2 different VRFs to connect together.
We could check the existing configuration and the route table in Router 03 and Router 12
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For those who had been working with Cisco routers, setting up a Cisco ASA stateful policy is as simple as setting up an ACL. By default, ASA would drop any TCP connection that doesn’t have a session record created with a sync packet. In that case user doesn’t require to a setup ACL for return traffic like working with routers.
In this example, we have 192.168.104.250/32 as the server in the DMZ and have the have NAT 1 to 1 incoming traffic mapping applied to allow internet user accessing the http service only.
The IP address of the firewall is 10.50.2.10/29, and we will assign the mapping of the server to another external IP address of 10.50.2.11
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How yall doing guys. It has been some times putting anything new to my blog. I think I will put some more materials that focus on troubleshooting wise stuffs. This time, I will present the way to check the label switching path or routing path of the MPLS VPN traffic that run on top of the OSPF and LDP protocols.
Here is the Topology. The lab is build with both Cisco IOS (C1000v) and JunOS. There is 2 subnets in the VRF which are 192.168.104.0/24 and 192.168.109.0/24 and they are located in the R3 and R10 respectively.
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Compute networking sometimes gives new ITers a feeling of confusion and complication when they start learning networking, this post will simply explain it in laymen terms and provide a basic concept and some basic configuration on Cisco productions for reference.
So what is layer 2 communication? What does it provide or allow us to do? What is networking HUB and what can it do? What is the different between network switches? What are LAN and what are VLANs? (This post will explain the ethernet network only) Continue reading
I have starting picking up one of the official network similator these days to learn about the ASA. The last time I used it was 7 years ago, and it didn’t have much of the routers n features r allowed to be simulated compare to the decent version. Some of the readers might think why would I start playing with packet tracer with there r many of the option in the market like GNS3. It s simply because it allows me to be lazy for setting up labs without going through the instability issues.
The newest version of packet tracer as of 2016 Oct, it has wifi, ASA, router, n switches can be used for simulation. Although it doesn’t cover all the features from the production environment, it still allows users n anyone who s new to Cisco to get a feeling of it. The best part of the tracer is to check the packet behaviours with a decent 4G ram device, which cannot be done with GNS3 running wire shark (not really cant be done, but it would be slow enough to piss everyone off). Continue reading
In this post, I will show you guys how to setup a Cisco ASA firewall serves as a layer 3 packet transfer device. The example will be demonstrate with 192.168.3.10/32 machine accessing to 9.9.9.92/32 via IPerf. There is only simple routing and has no NAT involve.
In this setup, the ASA is acting as the gateway between office network and the internet. The 192.168.3.0/24 is the internal subnet and 10.0.0.20/30 is the internet. There are couple areas we have to handle, and they are routing, and policy. Since ASA is a stateful device, we have to apply policy to allow internal network to access external network, but not vise versa.
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Cisco ASA firewall is a security appliance that can perform packet inspection and with limited routing features. For those who are new to this product, it uses different ways to present its information than Cisco routers. There might have some difficulty at first, but since it is using syntax similar with other Cisco products, such as “show run”, and it is not too hard to pick up this product. I will list out some frequently used commands for troubleshooting purpose.
Commands above are for general use, and can be run under “config mode” without the “do”. I will demonstrate more command within my ASA posts.
When placing a network equipment without a static IP address, the best way to remote access to the device is by using the dynamic DNS service. Juniper has import this feature into their network security products such as Netscreen ScreenOS and JunOS SRX.
I recently has replaced my SSG with the SRX, and am having trouble updating the DDNS record with the built-in DDNS feature. What happen is SRX only offer 2 options of “dyndns.org or ddo.jp”, any service other than these 2 are out of questions. Since I am using HE.net for DDNS, that does not do my any good.
So my work around is: to map the dyndns domain name to a HE.net dns server IP address with the following command. The command below is to bind the members.dyndns.org (the dyndns.org DDNS service domain name) to the IP address of 184.105.242.3 (the DDNS service domain name). Continue reading