
Give the firewall a hostname, domain name and set the password (note it uses the names to generate an RSA Key remember this if you ever change them in future) > Next.ġ2.

After some time we will at last arrive at the startup wizard. Standard stuff, click “Continue to this website”.ĩ. Open an IE (Or Firefox) window and navigate to Ĥ. here’s the result of an “ipconfig” command to prove it worked.ģ. Your PC has to be set to get an IP address dynamically, the ASA will lease it an address, and the ASA will take the ip address of 192.168.1.1 on its inside interface.

You get two network cables in the box, connect your PC/Laptop to Ethernet port 1 (See the photo, that’s the second one in from the right – By default Ethernet port 0 is used for outside on an ASA, though this can be changed).

Regular visitors to PNL will know I much prefer to do things at command line, but I appreciate most people trying to set up a new firewall will want to use the GUI.īefore you start you will need to know what IP addresses you want to use, what password you want to use etc.
