[c-nsp] ASA vs ISR ZBFW

Colin Whittaker colin at netech.ie
Fri Sep 9 11:51:18 EDT 2011


On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 05:23:59PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > 1) It now does dynamic routing (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP)
> 
> ... but still no BGP, which is undoubtly *the* routing protocol that you
> want to use if you don't trust your neighbours (due to much better filtering
> support) - and "firewall environment" is usually all about "not trusting".

This exact limitation is why everytime I deploy firewalls these days
there tends to be some form of L3 switch on either side just so I have
something to run BGP on and just do eBGP multihop across the ASA.

Colin

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