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		<title>Cisco ASA Firewall &#8211; Web Administration and Web VPN</title>
		<link>http://www.networkingreviews.com/2008/07/19/cisco-asa-firewall-web-administration-and-web-vpn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlogAdmin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco Firewall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asa 5500 firewall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asdm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cisco asa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ssl vpn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cisco ASA Firewalls (ASA 5500 series) offer several ways for remote administration and management of the devices such as SSH access, Telnet access, and Web HTTP access. The last one (HTTP access) makes use of the ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) which is a powerful graphical application for administration and management of the firewall device. [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.networkingreviews.com/2008/07/19/cisco-asa-firewall-web-administration-and-web-vpn/' addthis:title='Cisco ASA Firewall &#8211; Web Administration and Web VPN '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cisco ASA Firewalls (ASA 5500 series) offer several ways for remote administration and management of the devices such as SSH access, Telnet access, and Web HTTP access. The last one (HTTP access) makes use of the ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) which is a powerful graphical application for administration and management of the firewall device. The ASDM application file is stored on the firewall&#8217;s flash and is accessed by a browser using HTTPs.</p>
<p>To gain access to the graphical ASDM Web management tool you need to enable the HTTPs server on the firewall, and allow HTTPs connections.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Enabling HTTPs Access</strong></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Generate cryptographic keys for HTTPs</li>
<li>Enable the web server on the firewall</li>
<li>Specify which management PCs are allowed to access the device</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Example:</span><br />
<strong>ASA(config)# crypto key generate rsa modulus 1024<br />
ASA(config)# write mem<br />
ASA(config)# http server enable<br />
ASA(config)# http 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.255 inside<br />
ASA(config)# http 192.168.1.5 255.255.255.255 inside</strong></p>
<p>The example above enables HTTPs access and allows access only from two IP addresses (192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.5) from the inside interface of the firewall.</p>
<p>Now, in order to access the Graphical ASDM web interface from a PC (e.g from PC with address 192.168.1.2), just open a web browser and enter the URL <strong>https://&lt;inside firewall IP address&gt; </strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Web VPN</strong></span></p>
<p>Web VPN (or SSL VPN, or clientless VPN) is a new type of remote VPN access using a browser with HTTPs protocol. A remote teleworker for example can access internal corporate services and resources by using  his/her secure browser. The teleworker just points the browser to the external public IP address of the corporate ASA firewall which authenticates the user and gives him secure access to the internal network.</p>
<p>However, if you use both ASDM and Web VPN on the same firewall interface, there is going to be a conflict since both of these services use the default HTTPs port (443). To avoid this conflict we can change the default listening port of the Web VPN service to something different than 443. Lets see an example:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Example:</span></p>
<p><strong>ASA(config)# http server enable<br />
ASA(config)# http 100.100.1.1 255.255.255.255 outside<br />
ASA(config)# webvpn<br />
ASA(config-webvpn)# port 444<br />
ASA(config-webvpn)# enable outside</strong></p>
<p>On the example above, we enabled HTTP access for management (ASDM) on the outside interface, and also we have enabled webvpn access again on the outside using a different port (444). This way we avoid conflict of the two services (ASDM access listens on the default port 443 and webvpn listens on port 444).</p>
<p>In this case, in order for a remote teleworker to access the firewall on the outside he needs to point his browser to <strong>https://&lt;external IP of Firewall&gt;:444</strong></p>
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		<title>Configuring Cisco Firewall Security Contexts</title>
		<link>http://www.networkingreviews.com/2008/03/09/configuring-cisco-firewall-security-contexts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlogAdmin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco Firewall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Starting with Cisco Firewall version 7.x and upwards, the PIX and ASA Cisco firewalls can support now multiple contexts (or virtual firewalls) on the same physical chassis unit. Each security context runs independently with its own set of security policies, access rules, logging configuration, and so on. Out of the box, any cisco firewall appliance [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://www.networkingreviews.com/2008/03/09/configuring-cisco-firewall-security-contexts/' addthis:title='Configuring Cisco Firewall Security Contexts '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Starting with Cisco Firewall version 7.x and upwards, the PIX and ASA Cisco firewalls can support now multiple contexts (or virtual firewalls) on the same physical chassis unit. Each security context runs independently with its own set of security policies, access rules, logging configuration, and so on. Out of the box, any cisco firewall appliance comes with a license of 2 security contexts. In this post, I will show you how to configure these two security contexts on a cisco PIX or ASA firewall that supports this feature:<span id="more-49"></span></p>
<p>ASA(config)# mode multiple<br />
ASA(config)# context CONTEXT-A<br />
ASA(config-ctx)# allocate-interface gigabitethernet0/0<br />
ASA(config-ctx)# allocate-interface gigabitethernet0/1<br />
ASA(config-ctx)# config-url flash:/contextA.cfg<br />
ASA(config-ctx)# exit<br />
ASA(config)# context CONTEXT-B<br />
ASA(config-ctx)# allocate-interface gigabitethernet0/2<br />
ASA(config-ctx)# allocate-interface gigabitethernet0/3<br />
ASA(config-ctx)# config-url flash:/contextB.cfg<br />
ASA(config-ctx)# exit<br />
ASA(config)# exit<br />
ASA# changeto context CONTEXT-A</p>
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<p>The configuration above will create two security contexts and allocate two physical interfaces to each one. After the creation of the virtual firewalls, you can get into each individual security context using the command &#8220;changeto context&#8221; and start configuring each virtual firewall independently.</p>
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