Adaptive Security Appliance

Technology: Firewall  Area: High Availability Vendor: Cisco Software: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Platform: Cisco ASA 5505, 5500, 5525 Description:  The security context is a virtual instance of firewall which are separated from each other by default. Physical ASA appliance is divided into contexts creating many virtual firewalls. In typical implementations, contexts are mapped into VLANs or VRFs to the rest […]

Technology: Firewall  Area: Routing and Switching Vendor: Cisco Software: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Platform: Cisco ASA 5500, 5500-X     Description:  The Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is an interior gateway routing protocol that uses link states for path selection and propagates link-state advertisements. OSPF uses a link-state algorithm to build and calculate the shortest path to all known destinations. […]

Technology: Firewall  Area: High Availability Vendor: Cisco Software: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Platform: Cisco ASA 5505, 5500, 5525 Description:  Active-Standby failover means that two units are working in an active-standby configuration where the active state is always present on one of the failover pairs. The other one is standby. Standby has an identical configuration as active and […]

Technology: Firewall  Area: Routing and Switching Vendor: Cisco Software: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), Firepower (ASA-OS) Platform: Cisco ASA 5500 Series, 5500-X Series, Firepower with ASA-OS   Description:  Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) provides more control over the routes that are allowed to be sent or received and also allows the option of  route redistribution configuring. Cisco ASA can redistribute routes […]