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ASA Bridge Groups
Sep 5th
Hello everyone. I know I’ve been neglecting this blog for too long. Can’t promise that things are going to change, but I have a good post for today.
I was recently exposed to some new technology while working with a customer. I had to learn it pretty quickly. This post is about a new feature in the Cisco ASA 8.4 code called Bridge Groups. This is essentially the addition of BVI interfaces, which have existed in IOS forever. This feature is useful when running an ASA transparently, but not physically inline. Running a firewall physically inline works well, but it can limit you to the number of available interfaces you have on each firewall. Adding physical interfaces to a firewall is expensive. This feature also saves you from using a context per firewalled VLAN on your ASA. Here we’ll use a 3750 for physical connectivity and use BVIs to force traffic through the firewall. Here is the physical topology:
Firewall Object Groups
Mar 2nd
Dropping in to do a quick post today. Sorry for the ridiculous lack of content lately. I’ve been busy with finding/changing jobs and new responsibilites and all that.
Today I’m going to cover “object groups” on ASAs. I was never a big fan of these, which I realized had a lot to do with using them behind others, not actually writing them myself. It takes awhile (for me, at least) to wrap your head around what the person before you was trying to accomplish. This is what put me off object groups. Though, I discovered that if I write them myself, I love them, lol. They can be hugely useful. They’re even available in IOS now (as of 12.4(20)T). Here’s an example of when they’d be used:
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