Archive for the ‘Cisco’ category

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Cisco ASA, Exchange, MessageLabs and Inspect ESTMP don’t play nicely

September 3, 2009

Our Exchange Guru, Ben, was responding to a call about missing emails.  After a bit of searching through logs he noticed consistant time out errors on the mail relay from MessageLabs. The MessageLabs logs were also showing constant retries to the mail relay. Time to blame the Firewall …. Now, I knew that Cisco PIX  ‘fixup [...]

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Cisco ASA – FTP & HTTP downloads slow

August 15, 2009

When calls come in about the Internet being slow, I normally take them with a pinch of salt. This time, a new Cisco ASA had been deployed to a site, so I was more inclined to investigate. The complaints centred around http downloads being much slower before the ASA was deployed; In the case of [...]

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node verification failed – SecurID fails after re-building a Cisco ASA

February 13, 2009

Ran in to this little problem after rebuilding a Cisco ASA. Got everything working except for RSA authentication. DNS forward and reverse entries were in place (if you don’t have a PTR record, the ACE server would not automatically resolve the FQDN) and the agent on the RSA windows ACE server was set up and [...]