Cisco ASA

How to use an usb-to-serial on a Macbook Pro for configuring a Cisco device

Today I was wondering how to get a cisco console cable working on a Macbook Pro. Well after installing the driver ( downloaded from apple.com/support ( the PL2303 driver ) i could user my usb-to-serial. now I connected my light blue console cable. The following thing I had to do was: use the command: ls

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Cisco ASA – How to View pre-shared keys in plain text

As engineers, you don’t always document things as well as we should OR someone you work with is always “too busy” to document their work. This little trick will show you how to recover pre-shared keys on a Cisco Pix or ASA firewall. Normally, you use the ’show run’ command to view the running configuration.

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Easy change of a Cisco ASA VPN site-2-site tunnel IP address.

Since a few times i had to change some site-2-site vpn tunnels on cisco ASA’s and first my colleague was saying I had to remove the whole VPN configuration and rebuild this configuration. However during my testing and on. I found a way that i didn’t had to remove the whole configuration of the site-2-site…

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