The Cisco Asa 5505 Firewall is the smallest model in the new 5500 Cisco series of hardware appliances. Although this model is favorable for small businesses, branch offices or even home use, its firewall security capabilities are the same as the biggest models (5510, 5520, 5540 etc). The Adaptive security technology of the Asa firewalls offers solid and reliable firewall protection, advanced application aware security, denial of assistance charge protection and much more. Moreover, the doing of the Asa 5505 appliance supports 150Mbps firewall throughput and 4000 firewall connections per second, which is more than sufficient for small networks.
In this record I will justify the basic configuration steps needed to setup a Cisco 5505 Asa firewall for connecting a small network to the Internet. We assume that our Isp has assigned us a static social Ip address (e.g 200.200.200.1 as an example) and that our internal network range is 192.168.1.0/24. We will use Port Address Translation (Pat) to translate our internal Ip addresses to the social address of the face interface. The disagreement of the 5505 model from the bigger Asa models is that it has an 8-port 10/100 switch which acts as Layer 2 only. That is, you can not configure the physical ports as Layer 3 ports, rather you have to create interface Vlans and assign the Layer 2 interfaces in each Vlan. By default, interface Ethernet0/0 is assigned to Vlan 2 and it's the face interface (the one which connects to the Internet), and the other 7 interfaces (Ethernet0/1 to 0/7) are assigned by default to Vlan 1 and are used for connecting to the internal network. Let's see the basic configuration setup of the most leading steps that you need to configure.
Network Access Protection
Step1: Configure the internal interface vlan
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Asa5505(config)# interface Vlan 1
Asa5505(config-if)# nameif inside
Asa5505(config-if)# security-level 100
Asa5505(config-if)# ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
Asa5505(config-if)# no shut
Step 2: Configure the external interface vlan (connected to Internet)
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Asa5505(config)# interface Vlan 2
Asa5505(config-if)# nameif outside
Asa5505(config-if)# security-level 0
Asa5505(config-if)# ip address 200.200.200.1 255.255.255.0
Asa5505(config-if)# no shut
Step 3: Assign Ethernet 0/0 to Vlan 2
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Asa5505(config)# interface Ethernet0/0
Asa5505(config-if)# switchport access vlan 2
Asa5505(config-if)# no shut
Step 4: Enable the rest interfaces with no shut
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Asa5505(config)# interface Ethernet0/1
Asa5505(config-if)# no shut
Do the same for Ethernet0/1 to 0/7.
Step 5: Configure Pat on the face interface
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Asa5505(config)# global (outside) 1 interface
Asa5505(config)# nat (inside) 1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
Step 6: Configure default route towards the Isp (assume default gateway is 200.200.200.2
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Asa5505(config)# route face 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 200.200.200.2 1
The above steps are the of course requisite steps you need to configure for development the appliance operational. Of procedure there are much more configuration details that you need to implement in order to heighten the security and functionality of your appliance, such as Access control Lists, Static Nat, Dhcp, Dmz zones, authentication etc.
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Basic Configuration Tutorial For the Cisco Asa 5505 Firewall