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Cisco ASA Firewall Configuration

Step of configuration Firewall.


1. Make Topology:



2.assign ip accordingly on ASA & ISP Firewall

3.Set Inside and Outside On ASA firewall

4 Configure DHCP Server and DNS IP On ASA

5 configure Default Route On ASA

6 Configure OSPF  On ISP Router

7 Create Object Network & Enable NAT On ASA

8 Create ACL On ASA

9 Verify

Enable Mode:

ciscoasa>en

Password: 

ciscoasa#config t


------Remove the by-default dhcp rage using below commend--------------


ciscoasa(config)#no dhcpd address 192.168.1.5-192.168.1.36 inside


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Set a ip address for Inside Firewall :


ciscoasa(config)#int vlan 1

ciscoasa(config-if)#ip add 10.1.36.1 255.255.255.0

ciscoasa(config-if)#nameif inside

ciscoasa(config-if)#security-level 100              [ Security Level (100-inside),(0-Outside), (1-99 DMZ using for server)]

ciscoasa(config-if)#exit

ciscoasa(config)#int e0/1

ciscoasa(config-if)#switchport access vlan 1


Set a ip address for Outside Firewall :


ciscoasa(config)#int vlan 2

ciscoasa(config-if)#ip add 50.1.1.2 255.255.255.0

ciscoasa(config-if)#nameif outside

ciscoasa(config-if)#security-level 0

ciscoasa(config)#int e0/0

ciscoasa(config-if)#switchport access vlan 1




-------------------------------Configure DHCP Server And DNS IP On ASA------------------------------------------



DHCP configuration On firewall:


ciscoasa(config)#dhcpd add 10.1.36.2-10.1.36.20 inside


DNS Configuration On firewall:


ciscoasa(config)#dhcpd dns 8.8.8.8 interface inside



--------------------------Configuration Default Route On ASA---------------------------------------------------


ciscoasa(config)#route outside  0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 50.1.1.1

ciscoasa(config)#route outside  0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 50.1.1.2


-----------------------------------ISP Router Configuration------------------------------------------------------


Router>enable

Router#config t

Router(config)#int f0/1

Router(config-if)#ip add 50.1.1.1 255.255.255.0

Router(config-if)#no shutdown

Router(config-if)#exit

Router(config)#int f0/0

Router(config-if)#ip add 8.8.8.1 255.255.255.0

Router(config-if)#no shutdown

Router(config-if)#exit



--------------------------Confugure OSPF On ISP Router----------------------------------------------------------

Router(config)#router ospf 1

Router(config-router)#network 50.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 area 0

Router(config-router)#network 8.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 area 0


--------------------------Create Object Network & Enable NAT On ASA----------------------------------------------


Create Object Network :


ciscoasa(config)#object network lan

ciscoasa(config-network-object)#subnet 10.0.0.0 255.25.255.0



Enable NAT :


ciscoasa(config-network-object)#nat (inside, outside) dynamic interface



---------------------------------------Create ACL On ASA------------------------------------------------------

ciscoasa(config)#access-list oti extended permit tcp any any   (note:oti is a name of acceess list not a command)


ciscoasa(config)#access-list oti extended permit icmp any any


ciscoasa(config)#access-group oti inside interface outside


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Inportent Command:


ciscoasa#show nat  (for using how to work nat policies)


ciscoasa#show xlate 










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