[c-nsp] Geographically dispersed ASA failover?

Peter Rathlev peter at rathlev.dk
Wed Sep 2 18:05:06 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 11:38 -0500, Michael Malitsky wrote:
> Does anyone know if the ASA failover feature supports a setup where the
> ASAs are in geographically different locations?  Specifically, I have
> two data centers about 30 miles apart, connected by a 50Mb metro
> ethernet link with latency under 10ms.  

I think you'll be fine. We're currently running a pair of ASAs in
failover with ~40 km LoS between them (RTT ~0.7 ms) without the
slightest problems at all. It traverses a mix of 1Gig and 10Gig links.

Regards,
Peter




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