topic Re: ASA Software Recommendation in Network Security

ASA Software Recommendation

de1denta — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:12:41 GMT

Hi All,

I'm looking to upgrade one of our firewalls that recently hit the 213 day ARP failure issue and i'm looking for guidance on how to select the most appropriate software version.

I can see that 9.6(3)1 is a suggested release at the moment and it provides the features needed to meet my requirements, however, I noticed that 9.6(4) is the latest in the 9.6 train and 9.6(3) interim 20 is also available.

How do you normally decide which is the most appropriate version in this case? Should I be using the suggested 'gold star' release or the interim which I can see fixes lots of bugs etc.

Thank you

Re: ASA Software Recommendation

Rob Ingram — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:12:51 GMT

Hi, this previous post may answer your questions https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/firewalling/asa-os-version-choice/td-p/3314398

Re: ASA Software Recommendation

de1denta — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:23:05 GMT

Thanks for this. So my take is that even though 9.6(3)1 is the current suggested release, I should be using 9.6(3)-20 which is the latest interim release?

Re: ASA Software Recommendation

mvsheik123 — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 02:14:36 GMT

Hi,

Based on release date and notes 9.6(3)-20 includes bug fix in 9.6(3)1 + additional bug fixes. I would go with that. 9.6.4 release little over a month ago..so its recommended to wait.

hth