tjtressel
asked on
ASA 5505 Functionality Questions
Hello,
I am quite novice in the Cisco arena so these questions should be fairly simple. I am building a home lab for Exchange 2007/ ISA 2006 using ESX. I am comfortable with most MS/ESX technology, but I would like to work more with Cisco. Below are some questions about an ASA that I would like to be the external facing firewall for my home lab. There is much I want to do with the lab but most importantly is that the Exchange lab will be able to send/receive internet mail.
1. I will have multiple external facing servers, as well as internal. Will this ASA handle reverse NAT (or PAT is it called?) to multiple devices/servers? For example, I want mail to flow through my Exchange Edge for spam filtering, but my OWA and RPC/HTTPs through my ISA server.
2. Looking at the specs it looks like it comes with VPN capabilities. Will this work out of the box, or do I need licenses for more 1 person only?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/prod_models_comparison.html
3. Will I need a client for VPN connection?
4. I have other Cisco hardware that I recently purchased (2 X 2600 series routers, 1 X 2950 switch). Can I easily integrate this hardware to the ASA if need be in the future?
5. Can i easily segment my internal network into DMZs with this product, or would that take some custom configuration?
Thank you in advance for your time and effort.
I am quite novice in the Cisco arena so these questions should be fairly simple. I am building a home lab for Exchange 2007/ ISA 2006 using ESX. I am comfortable with most MS/ESX technology, but I would like to work more with Cisco. Below are some questions about an ASA that I would like to be the external facing firewall for my home lab. There is much I want to do with the lab but most importantly is that the Exchange lab will be able to send/receive internet mail.
1. I will have multiple external facing servers, as well as internal. Will this ASA handle reverse NAT (or PAT is it called?) to multiple devices/servers? For example, I want mail to flow through my Exchange Edge for spam filtering, but my OWA and RPC/HTTPs through my ISA server.
2. Looking at the specs it looks like it comes with VPN capabilities. Will this work out of the box, or do I need licenses for more 1 person only?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/prod_models_comparison.html
3. Will I need a client for VPN connection?
4. I have other Cisco hardware that I recently purchased (2 X 2600 series routers, 1 X 2950 switch). Can I easily integrate this hardware to the ASA if need be in the future?
5. Can i easily segment my internal network into DMZs with this product, or would that take some custom configuration?
Thank you in advance for your time and effort.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
ASKER
6. Is the same functionality in its GUI as is in the CLI?
7. Does do all ASA's do stateful packet inspection?