Chapter 21. PIX and ASA Site-to-Site Connections

In this chapter I’ll discuss how to configure IPsec LAN-to-LAN (L2L) sessions on the PIX and ASA security appliances. The first part of the chapter focuses on the components you’ll need to configure the management connection, much of which applies to remote access sessions, and the second part will focus on configuring the components of the data connections. At the end of the chapter I’ll illustrate an example of an L2L session between PIXs/ASAs.

In April 2005, Cisco introduced a new version of the Finesse Operating System (FOS) for the PIX security appliances, called 7.0. Currently this is supported only on the 515/515E PIXs and higher. Likewise, in May 2005, Cisco introduced the new Adapter ...

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