IP Routing – Longest matching route beats directly connected routes

One thing people seem to get hung up on when remembering the golden rule of “longest matching route wins” is when looking at directly connected routes. Consider the following network from the perspective of R1: Assume that from R1 we ping 192.168.2.2, does the ping follow the static route or the directly connected route? Remember …

How to Configure OSPF Authentication – Complete Guide

OSPF offers us 4 kinds of authentication when studying the CCNA and CCNP we really only hear/read about 3, the fourth SHA, is fairly new. Here’s the complete list of available authentication for OSPF. NULL (no authentication) cleartext (packet capture reveals the password) MD5 (creates a 128bit fingerprint of the password, click here to read …

How to Setup SNMPv3 on a Cisco ASA with LibreNMS

The guide below will explain how to setup SNMPv3 on a Cisco ASA with LibreNMS for Secure Monitoring! My goal with this article is to monitor devices over the WAN without ports being opened. ASA CONFIG: configure terminal snmp-server group libre v3 priv snmp-server user libreuser libre v3 auth sha password priv aes 128 password …

Cisco ASA Site to Site VPN Failover How-To

Policy based IPSEC tunneling is probably the most widely used technique to get two offices to communicate securely (at least in the SMB Market). Today I’m going to discuss how you can configure two ASA’s to failover to their secondary WAN, and then have their tunnels fail over as well. One should always aim for …

Cisco ASA VTI (9.7) Route Based VPN with load-balancing and failover – Setup Guide

With code 9.7 released Cisco decided to add two VERY important features. Route based VPN with VTIs, and bridge groups! This article will show a quick configuration of a route based VPN with ASAs! Previously to do something like this you would need to build a GRE tunnel over IPSEC with a second router terminating …

Cisco ASA – AnyConnect VPN with Active Directory Authentication Complete Setup Guide

This article will discuss setting up Cisco Anyconnect with LDAP/Domain Authentication. I will be showing both the ASDM/GUI and CLI commands. I recommend the GUI method once, then use the CLI once you understand it. Replace the following below with your own: “10.0.1.10” with your AD/DNS Server “DC=SDC,DC=LOCAL” with the base DN of your Domain, my …