Overview & Background

This blog is focused on the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Security Appliance. I have been working with Cisco products since their routers had IOS 11.0. The intention of this blog is to share technical information, tutorials, tips and configuration examples in a simple "how to" manner.

The Cisco ASA is the descendant of the older Cisco PIX series firewall which became part of Cisco's portfolio when they acquired Network Translation in 1995. In 2005, Cisco introduced the ASA which combined functionality of the PIX, VPN Concentrator, and IPS Product lines. Through PIX OS release 7.x (codenamed finesse) the PIX and the ASA used the same software images. Beginning with PIX OS version 8.x, the operating system code diverges, with the ASA using a Linux kernel.


Friday, February 19, 2010

I am Not Unimportant Enough to have a Blog!

About ten years ago, someone told me about these cell phone thingamagies people were starting to carry around. They seemed like a neat idea. One day a friend asked me when I was going to get one. “I’m not important enough for a cell phone,” I answered. Who did I need to talk to on a moment’s notice? What was I doing that was so important that it couldn’t wait for me to get to a land line? Nothing.

But now I have an iphone! At some point, cell phones became ubiquitous, a virtual necessity for daily life. I am no more important now than I was ten years ago, so I can only conclude that cell phones have become less important to match me. For all of that, I sometimes wonder how I once lived without mine.
But after a bit more thought it occurred to me: so many people are blogging these days, it has become a near-omnipresent social phenomenon. It has become unimportant, and I am just unimportant enough to be a part of it, with that said

I created this blog to help share the various special tricks, secrets, undocumented (or poorly documented), features of the Cisco ASA. This is what I will primarily be posting about but since its my blog there might be the occasional political observation and joke shared, sometimes they will be one in the same!

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