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When upgrading to the ASA 5505 router, I was left in a situation where there would be two routers on my home office network: the ASA acting as a main wired router, and my old Linksys router acting as a host for wireless clients. The ASA was connected to the cable modem to my [...]

I came across the first less-than-trivial configuration situation on the ASA router this morning—port forwarding. On consumer routers, this is absolutely simple to setup, just specify what port number you want to forward and select the internal IP to forward it to. On the ASA, it’s a bit more complicated, and I decided [...]

For quite some time now, I’ve been wanting to upgrade my office network, which doubles as my home network as well. From the business standpoint, I wanted some more reliable equipment along with some added security by enabling me to connect to the office network over a VPN when I’m on the road. [...]