Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Setting up an ASA 5505

So I setup my first Cisco ASA.  This what I did...

First off this device has 8 Ports.  Ports Ethernet 0/1-7 are the switch ports on the device and the Ethernet 0/0 is the outside interface that will connect to your ISP.  This needs to be set for DHCP unless your ISP requires you to set a static IP.  That static IP would be given to you from your ISP.

Basically follow the guides that come with the ASA.  They will get you to setup everything up to get you started.

First thing is you should go to https://192.168.1.1/admin.  This will bring you to a page that allows you to download the ASDM software.

How to configure remote access: Link 

We had to add one line to configure the ASA to route to the ISP .

Open an SSH client and connect to your ASA's IP.
Login
Type enable
Type config t
Type interface vlan 2 (or whatever vlan your outside interface is in)
Type ip address dhcp setroute
Type exit
Type exit
Type wr mem

Once applying this, I was able to then get to the internet.

How to configure LDAP: Link 
How to configure VPN access on the ASA: Link (add later)
How to configure VPN access on the Cisco IPSec Client: Link (add later)

At the time of writing my ASA was running 8.2(1) and ASDM 6.2(1).

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