firewall

How to allow ICMP through your Cisco ASA/PIX firewall

ICMP packets are not stateful, how does the ASA handle them by default? Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) pings and traceroute on the PIX Firewall are handled differently based on the version of PIX and ASA code. Inbound ICMP through…


Troubleshooting Cisco PIX/ASA site to site IPsec VPN

A site to site IPsec VPN consists of two phases; Phase 1 – IKE exchange and Phase2 – Establishing the ipsec tunnels. It is important to figure out which part of the negotiation the VPN is failing at. However, before…