VRF Route Leaking with a FTD

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on September 19, 2023 • ( 2 )

Just had a blast playing with VRF Route Leaking with a FTD. It is so cool and super simple to do. Let’s say you have a Cisco Firewall, a 3140 FTD in this instance, and you want to have varying… Read More ›

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Fun in the Lab: Adding ASAs to an Existing ASA Cluster

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on April 20, 2023 • ( 0 )

So let’s start with the FP9300 chassis and the 3 node ASA cluster I already have up and running. If you are wondering what the devices are on the far left and far right, those are a Spirent Test Center… Read More ›
Where’s the Fish?

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on April 19, 2023 • ( 3 )

“Life is Good” has this great shirt I have a few of – “WTF: Where’s the Fish?” It is actually a question I get asked a lot. Where did I go? Where are my blogs? Where are my YouTubes? Where… Read More ›
BGP Graceful Restart on the Cisco FTD: Part 2 – Seeing it “In Action”

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on May 17, 2022 • ( 1 )

In Part 1 we set the stage and configure the FTD to BGP (w/ GR enabled) with the N9K. In part two it is now time to play! 🙂 What Will be Covered in Part 2 Basically I’m going to… Read More ›
BGP Graceful Restart on the Cisco FTD: Part 1 – Configuring

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on May 17, 2022 • ( 3 )

Enabling BGP Graceful Restart on the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) just got so easy! I’m stoked! So the other day I needed to put together an environment with the FTD eBGP peering with graceful restart enabled and test it…. Read More ›
AWS: The Case of the iBGP Peer that Worked – Part 2: The Answer

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on May 8, 2022 • ( 1 )

The Answer: “#8 – Ping 192.168.14.2 from the AWS CSR” Summary: Why? What does BGP coming up have to do with the AWS CSR pinging the other side of GRE tunnel? Well if you know the answer… don’t read anymore…. Read More ›
AWS: The Case of the iBGP Peer that Worked – Part 1: The Facts

By Denise "Fish" Fishburne on February 25, 2022 • ( 3 )

I was so surprised when the BGP neighbor came up. I kinda just blinked and stared at it for awhile. I knew it couldn’t be an AWS bug. This was just too basic a setup. Did I misconfigure something? If… Read More ›