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Category: Practical – Cisco

Enabling traceroute on Cisco ASA

There are three steps to enable traceroute:

  1. In policy map “global_policy” in class “inspection_default” you need to add “inspect icmp” and “inspect icmp error”
  2. In policy map “global_policy” in class “class_default” you need to add “set connection decrement-ttl”
  3. On your oudside interface, you need add access list, that permits ICMP with “time-exceeded” on ingress direction

There is code, that you can paste in your ASA firewall:

Possible bugs/limitations encountered in Cisco’s RIP implementation

  1. Default route origination not working reliably.
  2. Automatic summarization turned on causes major networks to be propagated throughout the RIP domain with a metric of 1.
  3. Using RIPv2 on NBMA hub-and-spoke topology causes the hub router to rewrite the next hop field in the RIPv2 update to the IP address of the spoke router advertising the originalupdate, thereby creating reachability issues

Cisco-Linksys SRW 248G4 – system firmware recovery

In this article I will describe how to proceed if your firmware upgrade on SRW 248G4 switch failed and the switch then stop working.

I have found only one solution how to recover from this disaster and it is sending a new firmware over PC serial (COM) port using xmodem protocol. A new firmware can be send to the failed switch with the help of Startup menu of the switch. The Startup menu can be entered when the switch is booting.