Hi Jon, thanks for your reponse. How can I test this works before deploying it. I put a router on the inside and can ping the inside asa address. My laptop on the outside and can ping the outside asa address. They cannot see through the asa though ?

192.168.5.200 --> asa inside 192.168.5.234 ---> asa outside 10.96.112.20 ---> laptop 10.96.112.21

Appreciate any suggestions !

TIA

You need an access-list ie.

access-list acl_outside permit icmp any any

access-group acl_outside in interface outside

Then ping from router to laptop.

Jon

Jon, I cannot seem to get this thing working. I am _so_ not the firewall person, this is my first:-) all I need to do is get this thing performing the NAT and so I can telnet to the outside address to manage it after it's installed at site - then the firewall peeps will take care of the rest :-) what am I doing wrong here ? Thanks again.

ASA Version 7.2(2)

!

hostname ciscoasa

enable password 8il5M/7PS/HH/mgc encrypted

names

!

interface Vlan1

nameif inside

security-level 100

ip address 192.168.5.234 255.255.255.0

!

interface Vlan2

nameif outside

security-level 100

ip address 10.96.112.15 255.255.255.0

!

interface Ethernet0/0

switchport access vlan 2

!

interface Ethernet0/1

!

interface Ethernet0/2

!

interface Ethernet0/3

!

interface Ethernet0/4

!

interface Ethernet0/5

!

interface Ethernet0/6

!

interface Ethernet0/7

!

passwd xxxxxxxxxxxx encrypted

ftp mode passive

access-list acl_outside extended permit icmp any any

access-list acl_outside extended permit ip any any

pager lines 24

logging asdm informational

mtu outside 1500

mtu inside 1500

icmp unreachable rate-limit 1 burst-size 1

no asdm history enable

arp timeout 14400

global (outside) 1 interface

nat (inside) 1 192.168.4.0 255.255.255.0

nat (inside) 1 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0

access-group acl_outside in interface outside

timeout xlate 3:00:00

timeout conn 1:00:00 half-closed 0:10:00 udp 0:02:00 icmp 0:00:02

timeout sunrpc 0:10:00 h323 0:05:00 h225 1:00:00 mgcp 0:05:00 mgcp-pat 0:05:00

timeout sip 0:30:00 sip_media 0:02:00 sip-invite 0:03:00 sip-disconnect 0:02:00

timeout uauth 0:05:00 absolute

no snmp-server location

no snmp-server contact

snmp-server enable traps snmp authentication linkup linkdown coldstart

telnet timeout 5

ssh timeout 5

console timeout 0

!

class-map inspection_default

match default-inspection-traffic

!

!

policy-map type inspect dns preset_dns_map

parameters

message-length maximum 512

policy-map global_policy

class inspection_default

inspect dns preset_dns_map

inspect ftp

inspect h323 h225

inspect h323 ras

inspect rsh

inspect rtsp

inspect esmtp

inspect sqlnet

inspect skinny

inspect sunrpc

inspect xdmcp

inspect sip

inspect netbios

inspect tftp

!

service-policy global_policy global

prompt hostname context

Cryptochecksum:0a4b8a707bce8a408f747562b06d4840

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Hey Jon, thanks for all you help, I do appreciate it. I managed to get one of the firewall guys on it :-)