I was setting up a new ASA the other day and ran into a problem that drove me nuts. I’ve configured local access on tons of switches and routers, but this is the first time I had to configure access to a firewall from scratch. I thought I would share my experiences in case anyone [...]

I’ll admit it, I’ve become a lazy, fat Cat.
Once I got away from Cisco 5000’s, I stopped caring if I used a crossover cable or a straight through cable. A little thing called Auto-MDIX caused me to be that way. In the old days, the crossover cable rules went like this:
If you are connecting like [...]