topic Re: When will the ASA be EOL? in Network Security

When will the ASA be EOL?

carl_townshend — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:27:00 GMT

Hi guys

we have a few Cisco asa firewalls as they are great at vpn.

when will Cisco EOL the asa? And does the firepower device give you all the same options for vpn that the asa did?

cheers

Re: When will the ASA be EOL?

Karsten Iwen — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:50:37 GMT

You have to differentiate between the ASA hardware platform and the ASA software. The complete line of ASA hardware is EOL announced. If you are running the hardware you can search for "ASA model + EOL" and you'll find the EOL announcement.

The ASA software is a different thing. This is still under development and if you buy a new Firepower appliance, you still can run the ASA software on it. But from FTD version 6.7, at least I do not miss any of the VPN-features any more. It seems to be more or less feature complete. But you should look at the latest config guide if there is a feature missing that you need.

Re: When will the ASA be EOL?

balaji.bandi — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 22:17:54 GMT

adding to another post - depends on model check below :

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/asa-5500-series-next-generation-firewalls/eos-eol-notice-listing.html

yes FTD gives you all the features#(most) that ASA can do ( but managing with FDM vs FMC is differs)

Re: When will the ASA be EOL?

Mark Elsen — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 07:24:51 GMT

- For your own cisco device(s) , you can use : https://cway.cisco.com/sncheck/

Re: When will the ASA be EOL?

tvotna — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:22:06 GMT

It appears there are still few limitations in FMC:

Third-party standard IKEv2 clients are not supported
No built-in AnyConnect profile editor
SCEP proxy configuration not available in the GUI
AnyConnect Customization and Localization not available
Browser Proxy configuration unavailable in the GUI ("msie-proxy" in group-policy)
etc.