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Wednesday
11Nov2009

Display Pre-Shared Keys in ASA Running Configuration

I ran across this blog today, and it had a great post on displaying pre-shared keys on an ASA.

ciscoasa# more system:running-configuration

Check out this blog:  http://www.ciscoblog.com/

 

Wednesday
04Nov2009

Update: BUG WHEN CONFIGURING WCCP - CISCO ASA

Here is a quick update on the entry I had on a bug identified on the ASA when using WCCP. I have listed the fixed versions below; however I was disappointed by the bug fix limitations. Instead of providing a solution to the problem Cisco basically removed a feature.  Through this bugfix Cisco now only allows an ACL asscoiated linked to WCCP to use source or destination addresses.  You can no longer use an ACL based on protocol.  

Example:

I want to send all http and https traffic to my Web Cache server (proxy) via WCCP for the 10.0.0.0/8 network. However I want the host 10.1.1.10 to send https directly out the firewall but still have WCCP send http to the Web Cache server.  There is no way to accomplish this using ACL's and WCCP now.

This bug was fixed in:
8.2(1.10)
8.2(1.10)
7.2(4.32)
8.0(4.30)
8.1(2.21)
7.2(4.36)
8.0(4.35)
8.1(2.26)

BUG WHEN CONFIGURING WCCP - CISCO ASA

Wednesday
04Nov2009

What's in a name?

Cisco ASA uses the names command to enable the ability to association a name with an IP address. Once you use the names command you can then use the name command to identify a host by a text name and map text strings to IP addresses. This sounds great because who can remember all the IP addresses accosiated with hosts in your network. There are some gotchas to look out for.

If you hate the lenght of your config when you do a show run command, just wait until you start using the name command.  The name entries are usally added to the top of the config and add a ton of lines to filter through. You could use the command:


     show run | exclude name


This command would not display the name entries; however you would also miss any other config lines like:

     hostame ciscoasa
     domain-name showcrypto.com


I think you get the picture. Cisco should add an option to display the config without name entries. The other annoyance I have with the names command is it's default behavior of using name values in logging.  Syslog now contains name values instead of IP addresses. Usually when I search through syslog events I do it by IP address and not by the name value in my ASA config.  To revert back to IP addresses in your logging events use this command:

     no names

If you get complteley fed up with names you can issue the following command:

     clear configure name

Friday
18Sep2009

Logging Bug - ASA 8.2.1

I just completed an upgrade of my ASA from 8.0.4 to 8.2.1. It took me a week to realize logging was broken. My ASA was configured to send any notification events and lower to my syslog server.  I also set notification logging on all ACL's. After the upgrade no ACL hits were being sent to the syslog server.

After opening a ticket with TAC they pointed me to this work around:

logging list mylist level notifications

logging list mylist message 106100

logging trap mylist

Message 106100 are messages from ACL hits. This work around is pretty good because I can add additional informational messages individually.  There are a lot of SSL-VPN informational messages that I like to capture for reporting purposes.

Bug Toolkit info:

access-list logging prints 106100 syslog always at informational level

Symptom:

Logging message 106100 always prints at level informational. As a result, logging message 106100 is not printed when logging level is set to lower than informational for both access-list and logging configuration 

Tuesday
31Mar2009

Bug when Configuring WCCP - Cisco ASA

This is the bug that was driving me crazy during my configuration of WCCP on my ASA. I worked with TAC for weeks on this trying to prove WCCP was broken. TAC helped me for a few weeks trying to identify the problem. After multiple packet captures proving the ASA was sending all traffic to the cache-engine and not just the ports associated with the service-ID a Bug was reported:

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Monday
30Mar2009

Configuring WCCP - Cisco ASA

Using the WCCP protocol on an ASA allows you to redirect traffic to a cache-engine (bluecoat, ironport, webwasher). The main limitation of WCCP on the ASA is that it can not direct traffic across interfaces on the firewall. This means if you configure WCCP to redirect traffic on the inside interface of your firewall, you have to have your cache-engine on that same interface. If you configure WCCP and need to filter traffic on other interfaces of your ASA your only option is to use an explicit proxy configuration or add an additional cache-engine.

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