So, I purchased a Cisco ASA 5505 to build a VPN Tunnel from a remote office to my main office. Really simple to do, when you are using Easy VPN . Anyway, I wanted to turn on SSH. So, I enabled SSH on the ASA, and tried to access it: [apaxson@netutil ~]$ ssh -l username 1.2.3.4 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host   Hmmmm..... let's do a debug,...
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I finally figured out, albeit late, on how to do the old "PIX" 'alias' command on a Cisco ASA. For those that remembered, the 'ALIAS' command would basically do a DNS rewrite.  If you have a webserver on your DMZ with a static ip on an outside address, your internal users wouldn't be able to access it.  DNS would return your outside IP, but because the address is on the outside...
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Just got asked the question on how I collected and graphed the number of active IPSec VPN Tunnels on my Cisco ASA with the HP IMC (Intelligent Management Center).  The OID I am collecting on is the number of active Phase1 IKE Tunnels:  .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.2.1.1.0 Here is a screenshot of my Performance Index that I'm collecting:   After that, click the...
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