You can ping other devices and have a few show commands at your disposal. This is a mode where your access is limited, if you type a question mark you will see that you only have a few commands available. The “>” character lets you know that you have entered the asa in unpriviledged mode. If it’s a used device you might be prompted for a username and password, if you don’t have it you can perform a password reset. Set your COM port to 9600 bauds and connect through Putty or another console application. If you don’t have any other way of accessing the device you can reach it through the console port. However overall the configuration is the same on all ASA platforms. Aside from the appliances you also have the ASA services module which you can use in a Catalyst 6500 switch, on those the interfaces are also configured differently. For the other ASA appliances the names of the interfaces will differ, i.e fastethernet or gigabitethernet. The main difference is the baby ASA, or 5505 which is a quietish table top device, where you configure vlan interfaces instead of physical interfaces. There are a few different ASA models, however in terms on configuration they are mostly the same. Though the ASA can do a lot of things, in this post I will cover the basics such as how you set it up and connect the device to the Internet. The ASA is Ciscos firewall or VPN device. Another reason is that people just haven’t taken the time to get familiar with firewalls.

I think some of this comes from the fact that “it’s not a router”.

Even with people who work in networking, as soon as you say the word “firewall” a lot of people tend to stare at that far away place that only exists in their minds.

Configure cisco asa 5505 for home use