[c-nsp] ASA questions

[Skeeve Stevens]

I am looking for an ASA with the primary use being to stop DDoS attacks
which one of my customers is getting slammed with.

Need at least a couple of hundred meg throughput.. Preferably in transparent
mode.

Couple of questions:
-	Is an SSM needed to do DoS protection?
-	The 5550 can't take an SSM?
-	Is the transparent protection functional in dot1q VLAN's? (If I want
to run multiple carriers into a switch then into the ASA and back out)

I am not so familiar with the protection or smarts offered by the ASA in
regards to DoS protection.

.Skeeve

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