Episode 7 Show Notes
Networking tools utilized by the TAC:
- netcat - TCP/IP Swiss army knife
- tcpreplay/tcprewrite - packet replay and modification software
- SecureCRT - SSH client
- Putty - SSH client
- Wireshark - Packet capture analyzer
- mrtg - SNMP graphing program
Monitoring Firewall Performance commands discussed in the episode:
'show interface'
'show cpu usage'
'show cpu usage detailed'
'show conn'
'show conn count'
'shop xlate'
'show xlate count'
'show pc conn' - FWSM only; shows connections residing on main CPU of the FWSM
'show memory'
'show mem detail'
'show np 3 acl count [0-12]' - FWSM only; shows ACL memory usage on NP 3
'show traffic'
'show np blocks' - FWSM only; shows if NPs have been oversubscribed
'show asp drop'
'show environment' - ASA 5580 model only