[c-nsp] ASA or FRSW in transparent mode over qinq

[Raul Lopez Nevot]

>
> Some people told me about cisco expectation for the future release... this
> speeds are achieved by authorizing only the connection on FWSM, and once
> authorized, passing connections to the supervisor and not on the
> etherchannel (to the supervisor forwarding engine). That's how they will
> multiply speeds, not passing all the packets through FWSM (and that's why
> it's incompatible with deep protocol inspection.
>
> Yeah, I know it's only a rumor some people near cisco told me. I don't know
> if anybody at cisco reading this list can confirm it.
>

In fact, it's not a rumor. They call it Trusted Flow Acceleration, and it
comes on version 4.0:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/fwsm/fwsm40/configuration/guide/protct_f.html#wpxref95739