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I stumbled upon a strange sympthon, when i changed the enable password of one my ASA firewalls it would accept the config but when i used the newly set password i couldn’t log in. So why isn’t it changing the password?

On some cisco devices when you are connected to the console or view the logfile (show logging) you get an output with the uptime of your device. For example: 1y35w: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface GigabitEthernet2/0/4, changed state to up This switch has been up for 1 year and 35 weeks. Your config propably set like: service timestamps debug uptime service timestamps log …

A quick note about finding your devices wich are connected to one of your cisco switches. I always start on the main switch (core) to find the device. Commands used: ping show arp show cdp-neighbours show cdp-neighbours detail show mac address-table Solution: First we have to ping the device to get an arp entry. #ping 192.168.0.1 Type escape sequence to …

  When you want to install the Cisco AnyConnect Client on Mac OS it will try to use java. If for what reason java is not enabled it won’t work and you will receive an error message. In your spotlight search for Java and open Java Preferences   You need to make sure that Enable applet plug-in and Web Start …

The Cisco Asa can be loaded with an AnyConnect Essentials bundle to handle to maximum number of sessions supported by your ASA appliance. But even though you have applied the Any Connect Essential bundel you still find the device limited by two sessions.

When you want to update a Cisco Asa in the field which is connected by VPN, you probably want to get the image from you internal TFTP server. But in order to make this work you will need to specify the source interface name you want to use or else it won’t work.