ASA

After upgrading some bastion hosts to Debian 10, connections to some older network gear failed. Connecting to some ASA firewalls generated the error: Unable to negotiate with 203.0.113.203 port 22: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 This was a simple fix: lab-5585-1# conf t lab-5585-1(config)# ssh key-exchange group dh-group14-sha1 lab-5585-1(config)# end Some older devices, Catalyst 3750 switches and ASA 5540 firewalls, complained of no matching cipher: %SSH-3-NO_MATCH: No matching cipher found: client chacha20-poly1305@openssh....

What it does By default an ASA does stateful inspection of all traffic. It must see the entire conversation to be able to set up the connection and pass the traffic. If traffic is asymmetric, such that the ASA only sees traffic in one direction, the packets will not be passed. Additionally, even if the traffic is symmetric and a new connection is established, subsequent fast path packets will be inspected for things such as TCP sequence number randomization, TCP normalization, and other checks....