Firepower FTD – No Gateway for Management Interface
I was recently working on a Firepower 5506-X that I pulled off the shelf that had had the configuration wizard ran on it already. The management interface had a configuration but had no gateway...
Microsegmentation with Meraki Adaptive Policies
When it comes to networking and user based security policies in a Cisco environment, a lot of people will immediately point to Cisco ISE and its process of creating policies based on a wide...
Add Remote Firepower Firewall to Firepower Management Center
*UPDATE** - See comments and now my own experience. This method is NOT working on FPR-1010 devices (and possibly 2000 and 4000 series as well). This was tested with 5506, 5508, and 5516 devices....
Firepower 4100/9300 – Reset to Factory Default
I recently began working on a project with a Firepower 4100 chassis. When I powered on the appliance I quickly realized that the setup would be different than a normal Firepower device. The console...
Nat-Traversal (Nat-T) Clarification
There was a recent lab I was working through where Nat-T was the main focus. Basically there was a firewall behind the internet router. It looked a little something like this, but sub our...
Cisco NX-OS TACACS+ Setup Guide
Quick post here, nothing much to it. This will be a straight forward guide to NX-OS TACACS+ Setup. TACACS+ was developed by Cisco as an extension to TACACS that fully encrypts each packet. This...
Cisco Router IPSec VPN Tunnel Lab (with Video)
This post will cover the creation of an IPSec tunnel between two Cisco routers. If you've ever done one of these on an ASA firewall for instance, you will notice right off the bat...