I recently needed to search through some ACS logs and the really unusable windows explorer search function just wasn’t doing the job. This left me wishing that my windows server would magically change into a unix box so I could use grep or xargs. I tried a few different DOS commands and with a little [...]

One of the great things about the ASAs Modular Policy Framework is that you can categorize different traffic flows and decide what actions you want to take on those flows such as applying a inspect, policing or applying an action to a pattern match in a packet using regex.
In this case the goal is [...]

Here’s a quick post inspired by the site’s search logs. How do you determine if nat-control is on/enabled on a PIX or ASA?
ciscoasa(config)# sho run nat-control
If nat-control is enabled, you will see:
ciscoasa(config)# sho run nat-control
nat-control
If nat-control is disabled, you will see:
ciscoasa# sho run nat-control
no nat-control
That’s it!