[c-nsp] FWSM, Contexts and ASA's

Ge Moua moua0100 at umn.edu
Wed Feb 13 12:13:49 EST 2008


We're using over about 30 FWSMs (able to do > +5000 virtual FWs) here on
campus at the UMN-TC.
Pros:
* scalable
* centralized
* high throughput
* class of service (provision & allocate resources as needed)

- Ge

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Christian Koch
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:07 AM
To: jason.plank at comcast.net
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] FWSM, Contexts and ASA's

Corporate/Customer

On Feb 13, 2008 11:41 AM, <jason.plank at comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm confused by what you are asking here? Are you asking if it's a 
> good idea to mix Corporate/Production/etc traffic on the same FW device?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Jason Plank
> CCIE #16560
> e: jason.plank at comcast.net
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Christian Koch" <christian at visr.org>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > IM looking for some opinions..
> >
> > we are deploying FWSM for a customer firewalls, and someone has 
> > brought
> up
> > the thought of moving our coproate firewalls (now on asa's) over to
> these
> > same FWSM's..
> >
> > my main thoughts are to stray away from this.. does anyone run  an 
> > architecture like this now? or have any opinions on WHY to or to not 
> > do
> it?
> >
> > Christian
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