[c-nsp] ASA 5510's to Redundant Switches?

[Kaj Niemi]

Hi Jeff,

On Apr 30, 2008, at 17:01, Jeff Kell wrote:

> Kaj Niemi wrote:
>> The ASA does not support STP. If you run recent enough software you  
>> may be able to use redundant interface pairs (assuming you are  
>> looking for redundancy).
> Redundant pairs?  On the same box?  Is that in 8.x?

The feature is available as of 8.0(2), see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa80/release/notes/asarn80.html#wp229690

> The typical "redundancy" setup is similar to http://www.cisco.com/univercd/illus/1/69/126669.jpg 
>  (this is actually multiple contexts).
> You can lose either of the ASAs and everything keeps on chugging  
> right along.
> But if you lose any ONE of the FOUR switches in this scenario,  
> you've hosed an entire context.

I'm not particularly fond of contexts although they have their uses in  
certain scenarios.



HTH

Kaj
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