Any Experience With Cisco ASA Devices
Jun 8, 2007input on these ASA devices by Cisco more specifically the IPS Edition.
CISCO ASA5510-AIP10-K9
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NetApp Devices?
Mar 10, 2008Out of curiosity more than anything, what's up with NetApp devices? It seems to me that, for the cost of a Network Appliance system, I could build something that was an order of magnitude cheaper, and worked at least as well.
For instance, I'm looking at a 4TB NetApp for $113K. The cost of 4TB of disks (146GB SCSI at 15K RPM) from a 'normal' sources comes to around $7,000, so I'd budget $10K or so for a halfway-decent fileserver.
Why is the NetApp an order of magnitude more? I just wonder exactly how it's different, and who values those differences so much? (And apologies if I come across as critical of the NetApp: I'm curious, not critical.)
Seperate Subnet For Network Devices And Servers
Jul 7, 2009I would like to find out from users how they designed and layout their networks when it comes to subnets.
Currently we have 3 subnet's of different sizes which house our network equipment such as Switches, PDU's, Log Servers etc. but also on these same subnet's are servers which we provide web hosting and VPS services. We also have some clients on these subnets with dedicated servers.
I am curious about this network design. Is it acceptable to house our operational equipment such as switches, PDU's etc on these same subnets which has client access servers or should be obtain a small seperate subnet to house this equipment for security and isolation reasons.
Cisco 2950 - How To Enable "Cisco Network Assistant"
Dec 16, 2007My host has helped me to install a switch. However, I don't know how to configure using the command line. Could anyone help me?
I need to be able to connect to my Cisco switch using Cisco Network Assistant. If you know the command sequence,
Cisco Pix 501
Jan 6, 2008Anyone know anything about cisco pix 501s? i need help setting one up if anyone can give me a hand.
View 14 Replies View RelatedCisco PIX 501
Jan 13, 2008I just got a Cisco PIX 501 from my IT Guy for home use and he didn't reset the firewall to default settings so there are ton of old commands in here.
Is there a command I can use to reset the firewall back to the factory default settings?
Or is there anyway I can flash it back to factory default settings?
Cisco ASA
Apr 19, 2008I am interested to buy a Cisco ASA firewall. So far I have never played with this gears and I wonder if it is easy to setup.
Is there any software provided by Cisco to setup rules and ACL thru some graphic interface software ?
Which Cisco Firewall?
Aug 21, 2007We are looking to replace our existing WatchGuard Firebox's with a hopefully more reliable firewall from Cisco's range although I'm a bit lost when it comes to the different ranges.
Could somebody suggest a firewall that is capable of:
1: Both NAT & Drop-in (bridge) mode
2: Pretty low bandwidth requirements, no more than 10mbit/s traffic
3: SNMP Monitoring
4: High availability pairing
Cisco Routers
Mar 25, 2009I am on a tight budget for a Cisco firewall. I am browsing and seeing some affordable options in the x600 series.
Please tell me, which series is best?:
1600
2600
3600
The higher the better?..
Also what about submodels, like is 1650 better than 1600?
And how can I tell how much DRAM each one can take up to?
Cisco Guard
Apr 22, 2009I see a lot of DDos related articles here at WHT. We've got hit multiple times by DDos and had to handle those attacks everytime with a different approach.
The largest one and the most well know one (we were in Times Mag, AP news, CNN, slashdot, you name it - just do a search about us on WHT) was Russian botnet cyberattack - we had to anaylyze netflow and then block everything on our edge routers, then on the firewall and then locally on the servers.
Since then we had number of other attacks, some of them we were not able to defend on the server level, while, as you can understand we can't do netwflow and manual intervention evey time somebody gets an attach.
We have very good scripts which allow to mitigate huge number of DDos attack, whet our scripts are finding attacking IPs and blocking them automatically - still some attacks could be blocked only on the router level.
I've read that Cisco Guard (I am interesed in 65xx version of it) suppose to mitigate DDos attacks in automatic mode.
Cisco Redundancy
Sep 25, 2009after months of disruption moving servers into a new data centre, our once reliable colocation company has now had nearly 6 hours downtime in the last 16 hours. So much for network redundancy.
View 5 Replies View RelatedCisco Switch
Sep 23, 2009I am looking at picking up a switch to mess around with at home. I found the following within driving distance but have no idea of which one will give me more up to date, hands on experience. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Used Cisco WS-C5509 Chassis with power supply ( POWER SUPPLY 34-0870-01), and fan (WSC5509FAN)
Cisco WS-X5530-E2 Supervisor Engine III Modules
Cisco Systems WS-U5537-FETX CISCO 4 PORT 100BASETX UPLINK MODULE
Cisco WS-X5234-RJ45 Switch Modules X 8
$160 each.
Cisco WS-C5500 Chassis
POWER SUPPLY 34-0773-03
Cisco Ws-x5550 Supervisor Engine Iii G-series
WS-X5234-RJ45 X 11
For $200
Cisco WS-C5505 Chassis
Cisco WS-X5530-E2 Supervisor Engine III Modules
Cisco WS-U5533-FEFX-MMF Supervisor Engine III Uplink Modules
Cisco WS-X5225R Switch Modules X 2
For $140
Cisco 2950
May 12, 2008I'm trying to learn about network. I bought Cisco 2950 for testing. I set it up and finding out the way to cap its ports at 20Mbps or 50Mbps. Do you know what command or how to do this?
Also what command to check the port speed or to uncap the port?
Used Cisco Gear
Jun 5, 2007Other than eBay does anyone know of a supplier of Cisco gear that has good prices and knows their Cisco equipment?
View 14 Replies View RelatedCisco Routing
Jul 27, 2007I am setting up a small ccna lab and i have RIP working and i can ping my lan from both routers, but only certain hosts on the lan from the one router the setup is
LAN (192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0)
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/
router 1 E0 192.168.1.45
Serial0 10.10.10.1
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/
Serial0 10.10.10.2 (of router2)
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/
E0 192.168.3.250
E1 192.168.2.250
Lo 192.168.5.4
I can ping 192.168.1.102 from router 2 and 192.168.1.45 but no not 192.168.1.201 ... or 192.168.1.1
also i can ping 192.168.5.4 from 192.168.1.102 which is a linux box and an ip route to tell it that 192.168.5.0 can be gotten from 192.168.1.45
Cisco Firewall
Jul 12, 2007What is the difference between the Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA Firewall Systems?
Also which firewall do you guys recommend for a rack of servers
Which Cisco Router To Use
Jul 11, 2007I am currently looking at these Cisco switches:
- Cisco 2924 WS-C2924-XL-EN Enterprise Switch
- Cisco 2950 WS-C2950-24 Catalyst Switch
- Cisco 3512 WS-C3512-XL-EN Enterprise Switch
- Cisco 3524 WS-C3524-XL-EN Enterprise Switch
- Cisco 3548 WS-C3548-XL-EN Enterprise Switch
1) I was recommended to chose the XL-EN model switches because it seems they have more Memory, but the second one in the list (Catalyst) is not a XL-EN, is that going to have any affect performance wise? or it doesn't really matter?
2) I was also recommended to choose managed switches because that way I can use the SNMP features to measure bandwidth, are any of the switches above unmanaged?
3) I also want to be able to manage the switch remotely, web managed, are any of the switches above web-manageable?
4) Most importantly, when my datacenter give me a 100mbit drop, I dont know which port to plug it in in the 29** series. In the 35** I see it clearly but I am not able to see it in the 29**, any ideas?
5) On some of these switches I see a special port called "Console", what is it? where does that connect to?
6) Do any of the switches above not have a console port?
Cisco ASA Security
Sep 28, 2007My network currently looks like this :
ISP ->> L3 Switch ->> Firewall (Transparent Mode) ->> Switch ->> Servers
I have a single /24 and my firewall is on x.2 and routes traffic for each of the servers.
Now i have a new Cisco ASA 5510 that i want to replace the aging firewall currently in place, however i dont want to put the firewall into transparent mode because i dont want to lose all the functionality.
Now with most firewalls your outside subnet cannot be the same as your inside subnet, which is fine if you are using NAT but i dont want to NAT. I need all of my servers to remain with their public ip addresses.
So what is the ideal way to setup something like this? Request my ISP give me a /30 for the ASA outside interface or something? And then ask them to route my /24 through the /30 new subnet?
Qos Cisco 3600
Sep 18, 2007whether I can grant a specific vlan priority over all other traffic..and if so does anyone know an appropriate site where I can find documentation on how to do so?
View 0 Replies View RelatedCisco Switches
Jun 19, 2007Is there such a switch?
Do cisco do a 24 port 1000Mbs switch that you can control each port speed through a web based software?
Cisco Pix Firewall
Apr 27, 2007Does anyone know of a place or have for sale a Cisco PIX firewall? I have looked into ebay but was wondering what else is out there?
View 3 Replies View RelatedCisco Licensing
May 16, 2007From the posts in this forum it would appear that a number of forumites are colocation service providers and web hosters that use Cisco gear.
I was reviewing the Cisco End User License Agreement that was included in the router box. Under the General Limitations section, "Customer shall have no right, and Customer specifically agrees not to:", item (iv) states, "use or permit the Software to be used to perform services for third parties, whether on a service bureau basis or time sharing basis or otherwise, without the express written authorization of Cisco".
Does this mean that a service provider is required to acquire
a separate license similar to the Microsoft Service provider license?
Cisco 2960G
Mar 1, 2007I have a cisco 2960G switch that I used for colocation, the colocation provider does all the routing all I need is this switch. It's just a plug and play operation, however I now need to do some more difficult stuff.
So, I plugged their bandwidth uplink into port 20.
I have really no idea on how to setup anything other than the basic of the switch.
Is it possible to setup Private Vlans in this situation? I am in need of a setup like this:
All port 1-19 in private vlans, but still able to communicate with port 20 to get internet access. Port 1-19 cannot communicate with each other except by going through port 20, through the internet.
I also want to know if it's possible to statically assign each port with a specific IP? Just say I want all traffic to a static ip to only go to port 1? Is that possible? I want to be able to limit the control of IPs through the switch not through the server.
Right now all my IPs are assign on the server level, meaning the server can take each other IPs and mess with each other connections.
Cisco 2851
Oct 1, 2007at 11x 2851's. When we got the quote they had added on Cisco Advanced IP SERVICES.
We arent sure if that is just the security bundle, or something they are trying to toss on for more money.
2851 w/ AC PWR,2GE,4HWIC,3PVDM,1NME-XD,2AIM,IP BASE,64F/256D
Cisco 2800 ADVANCED IP SERVICES
Maximum Compact and USB Flash
Four port 10/100 Ethernet switch interface card
Updated 1-Port T1/Fractional T1 DSU/CSU WAN Interface Card
64 to 256 MB CF Factory Upgrade for Cisco 2800 Series
256MB USB Flash Token for Cisco 1800/2800/3800 series
Cisco 2821/51 AC power supply
Power Cord,110V
Device manager for routers
256MB DDR DRAM Memory factory default for the Cisco 2800
8X5XNBD Hardware Replacement 2851 w/ AC PWR,2GE,4HWIC,3 (1 Year)
Cisco IOS Licensing
Aug 3, 2007My understanding is that the IOS software running in most of their products is non-transferable. So clearly this prevents a user from receiving updates if they purchase used hardware (i.e. ebay). However, isn't it possible to purchase an IOS software license from Cisco for any of their supported product?
Their web site is a mess! I've spent, literally, hours on their site trying to figure out how to purchase such a license, or how to purchase a service plan that might entitle me to IOS updates.
And how does "SMARTnet" fit into this puzzle? Do I need a SMARTnet contract to download maintenance updates, even for *new* hardware that I've purchased?
Which Cisco Firewall Is Suitable For Me
Oct 16, 2009i want a Cisco firewall suitable for one dedicated server protection, that server would host up to 30 vps
and i may buy another server in future, so what do you recommend?
Cisco Firewall Price
Oct 16, 2009from where can i get the price of cisco firewall?
View 4 Replies View RelatedCisco Re-certification/IOS Upgrades
Sep 21, 2009On used equipment (for example, 6509s), is there any possibility of getting IOS upgrades from Cisco? Is there any sort of re-certification process? My only concern with used equipment is that often times the firmware is years old.
View 14 Replies View RelatedConfiguration For Cisco ASA Firewall
Nov 3, 2009I already get a new firewall for my server cisco ASA and I don't know how to config it
is there any rules to get protection from shell and virus trojan as example
Procurve Vs. Cisco Vs. Juniper
Oct 11, 2009I've been reading and searching on here as much as I can to try to help me in making a decision, unfortunately when I think I know what to do, I read something else and get confused again.
We are in the process of moving networks within our datacenter and will have 2 drops coming into our half-cabinet. We have about 7 servers in there, some for our own use and some for clients. In all cases, we manage the servers and are the only ones with root access (no need for VLANs for the purpose of protecting IPs etc).
We currently have a single drop and use an HP procurve 2524 layer2 switch that has been in there for over 6 years and never had a single hiccup. We also don't push much traffic at all though. Under 5mbps combined.
My question though is this: moving to the new network we will have 2 drops that are set up as HSRP on their end (upstream of me, I don't have to worry about having two switches). In order to use the dual feeds, we will need a Layer3 switch. One feed will be active, the other is not, both are connected to the switch via a VLAN and provide a gateway for VLAN2 to use. I have never used a layer3 switch, though I'm not *too* concerned since I don't expect we'll be doing anything too complex. My understanding is that one VLAN (VLAN1) will be set up with an IP address assigned to each drop and that VLAN1 will create a gateway for VLAN2. The second VLAN (VLAN2) will be all our "inside" client IPs that will then route through VLAN1.
I was briefly checking out the cisco 3750, but I think it's overkill...? I don't want to spend too much money, since I don't think we need any complex setups, at the same time, I don't want to waste money by buying something that won't work efficiently down the road.
My immediate short-list is now an HP procurve 2610, an HP procurve 3500 J9470A (not the YL), and a Cisco 3560 24-TS.
Of course, then someone mentioned Juniper (whom I have zero experience with either) and hence the title to my thread... I'm thoroughly confused. I was looking at the EX3200-24T.
Ok, so if I have to boil this down to some simple requirements/thoughts... here goes:
1. I only need 24 ports for now.
2. I use SNMP currently to monitor usage for clients (and overall)
3. I like HPs and have used them for layer2, I like their lifetime warranty and software availability
4. I don't have direct experience with Cisco at all.
5. Aside from routing from one VLAN (provider side) to another VLAN (my side), I don't think I need any other special features (hence the hp 2610 being ok I think, since it offers "lite layer3")
6. Some people say HP is great for layer2 but not for layer3? Now I dont' know what to think.
7. Currently use about 2mbps and might jump to 3 or 4mbps, but don't have major needs. I'd like for this switch to be able to last me a while though... so maybe 20~40mbps+? (but still not the hundreds of mbps that others here push
8. If possible, I'd LIKE to limit some servers to 1mbps or 2mbps on a per-port basis... but this is not a hard requirement. (I think this takes the 2610 out).
Budget: I like the $500 price tag of the 2610, but can spend the $1500~$2000 for the HP 3500, Cisco 3560, or Juniper. I would just rather not, if the price/features are not justifiable.
Hopefully I've provided enough information for someone to offer their insight? I think a few strategic key points or questions from someone with more experience might be what I need to help me bust through the "too many choices" fog and end up with the best switch for my situation...
L2 Switches......Cisco, Dell And HP
Aug 9, 2009we are a small shop...
Not looking to buy another switch but we have a crapshoot of switches around. Dell 5448,
HP 2910 and a Cisco 3560.
I'd like to keep the the Cisco back in HQ stock since it's a POE switch.
We are colocating just 1 SAN intially. Max of maybe 7-8 Servers total in the future. Not alot of bandwidth and doing L2 traffic only. Any issues with either the Dell or HP in the colo environment from a production standpoint. We have used a couple of Procurves in our environment, and the dell switches were freebies that were part of our last order.
Basically, it would look like this
ASA5510 serving as main headed VPN
2 Branch Offices connecting to it
One L2 Switch. 2 - 3 Seperate Vlans with a trunk port back out to the ASA5510