Cisco Firepower/FTD 6.3 New Licensing Feature
There is a new Specific License Reservation available for approved customers. This allows the using the Firepower Management Center (FMC) on an air-gapped network. Previously, the only way to use…
Cisco Releases new Firepower/FTD 6.3 code!
Well, the release of Firepower 6.3 is now upon us! This release brings several long awaited features including multi-instance and FQDN Access Control rules. Let’s take a closer look at…
What does Cisco LINA stand for? What is Cisco LINA?
What does Cisco LINA stand for? What is Cisco LINA? Both really good questions…. LINA The Cisco ASA uses a single monolithic binary (ELF) running directly on the main CPU,…
New Firepower & FTD Hands-on Labs Announced!
Nov 5th & Dec 3rd week Firepower/FTD students: There are now close to 80 hands-on labs in my intense Firepower/FTD class! www.lammle.com/firepower Receive my new FTD 6.2.3 full Video series!…
How to Reinstall the VDB on the Cisco Firepower FMC/FTD devices
In all my years of working with SourceFire and then ASA with Firepower, and now Firepower Threat Defense (FTD), I’ve never had a single problem with the VDB – until…
Updated 4/15/2019: Cisco Releases New ASA to Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Migration Tool
Update to this post 4/15/2019 Cisco is going to be releasing a new FTD migration tool soon. Cisco has added optimizations to the tool, to help users drop objects that…
How to Truly Fundamentally Understand Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
Todd Lammle, LLC Cisco Firepower & Pure FTD class will teach you the fundamentals from the ground up, with no Power Points & only real life labs, how to configure,…
How to find the list of IP, URL, and DNS entries in the Cisco Firepower Feed
Customers and students always ask me how to see what is in the Firepower objects updated by the Cisco feed, so this blog will show you how to find this…
How to generate Cisco FTD FXOS troubleshooting files for 2100/4100/9300 Cisco FTD devices
Let’s to through the directions on how to perform downloading advanced troubleshooting files on a 2100 as well as a 4100/9300. The commands are only slightly different between the 2100…
Cisco 4100/9300 FTD password recovery and reset to factory default
Password Reset First, here is how you reset the password, and then we can get in and reset the box back to factory default 1. Reboot 2. Use BREAK, ESC…
Cisco eStreamer Firepower FMC eStreamer issues…
There are 3 types of streamer issues in the Cisco Firepower FMC and in different releases. The first is the enforcement of TLS, which was introduced in 6.1. That broke…
The Cisco FTD 4100/9300 CLI: Understanding the prompts
It’s hard to understand how to traverse the CLI prompts when your in the 4100/9300 FTD devices. Here is a diagram on how you can easily traverse the Cisco FTD…