[c-nsp] Cisco ASA VPN Active/Standby - license requirements

[Ryan Hughes]

You have to buy licenses for both boxes in order to do SSLVPN in
Active/Standby failover.

ASA 5550 is a nice box; read the getting started guide as you'll want to
understand the caveats of having a dual bus for the interfaces (link below).

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa72/getting_started/asa5550/quick/guide/thru_n.html

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Petreski, Samuel <samuel-petreski at uiowa.edu
> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if any of you are running Cisco ASA 5500 in a VPN failover
> mode and if you would be willing to share the license requirements. I am
> thinking of running two boxes in Active/Standby mode and was wondering if I
> need to purchase the same number of SSLVPN licenses for both boxes or only
> for one.
>
> Also if you have any comments about the ASA 5550 vs. ASA 5540 I would
> greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Samuel
>
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