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ASA allow passive ftp traffic

March 17th, 2009 · 7 Comments · cisco, Security

Many ftp client will try to establish a passive connection with a server by default. A passive connection will use a high numbered unprivileged port range greater then 1023 (PASV) instead of port 20 (PORT). Most ftp servers specify different ranges that are to be used for passive connections.

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Cisco ASA 5505: Active/Standby Failover Configuration

February 17th, 2009 · 13 Comments · cisco, CLI, Security

The ASA 5505 is the smallest (and cheapest) solution from the current Cisco hardware security appliances. Still, if we have the proper software license (like Security Plus for example) we can use the ASA5505 to setup rather complex solutions. This post will show how we can setup a pair of ASA5505 in failover configuration, solution [...]

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Cisco ASA 5505 ASDM error: Unconnected Sockets Not Implemented

February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Security, sysadmin

If you run a version of Java JRE newer than v6 Update 10 (latest at this time is V6 Update 12) and see this error when trying to connect to a Cisco ASA ASDM interface: “ASDM is unable to continue loading. Click OK to exit from ASDM. Unconnected sockets not implemented.” then you are probably [...]

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HowTo upgrade ASDM using CLI on Cisco ASA5500

January 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments · CLI, Security, sysadmin

This post will show how you can easily upgrade ASDM (Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager for ASA) to the latest version on a Cisco ASA5500 firewall using the command line interface. In order to do this you will need the latest asdm image (you will need a proper cisco cco user and contract to download [...]

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