10-03-2011 01:50 AM - edited 03-11-2019 02:33 PM
Hi,
What kind of cable is used for failover in asa 5520 ? Thanks guys
Regards
Manesh
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10-03-2011 02:13 AM
With ASA, you will just be using one of the LAN interface on the ASA for failover, ie: straight through cable.
10-03-2011 02:13 AM
With ASA, you will just be using one of the LAN interface on the ASA for failover, ie: straight through cable.
10-03-2011 02:18 AM
Ha.. that’s great I thought it needs a special cable for failover. Also I have seen that cable based failover is only available in PIX. Is that true?
Thanks Jennifer..
10-03-2011 03:38 AM
Thats right you have cable based failover only in PIX, you can refer to this doc to clear out any doubts:
Hope that helps,
Varun
10-03-2011 04:02 AM
Hi Varun,
So this kind of configuration is not possible with ASA 5520? Please clear my doubts
10-03-2011 04:53 AM
Yes, thats right Manish, not with any model of ASA.
Thanks,
Varun
10-03-2011 05:01 AM
Hi Varun,
Can you just confirm that ASA 5520 supports cable based Active/Active Failover.
Thanks
10-03-2011 05:17 AM
HI Manesh,
Cisco ASA 5520 does not support cable based failover:
Note:
Cable-based failover is available only on the PIX 500 Series Security Appliance.
Thanks,
Varun
10-03-2011 05:49 AM
Okay .. Thanks Varun
10-03-2011 06:00 AM
Hi
The PIX do have a special failover cable. it is a special cable that are for this purpose only.
The ASA 5520 does NOT have a special failover cable, instead you (or atleast you should) set aside and use one of the Ethernet interfaces to be used as the special failover lan. = normal RJ45 cabeling rules apply. no special cable needed.
Result in both pix and ASA case will be thesame = stateful failover.
So if the question is do you use a special cable then the answer is no, there is nothing special about the cable for the asa, its a normal RJ45 cable.
in the case of pix it is a special cable.
Can you do Active/Active stateful failover with the ASA ? Yes you can.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/products_configuration_example09186a0080834058.shtml#act1
Good luck
10-03-2011 09:34 AM
Cable-Based Active/Active Failover is ONLY supported on PIX 500 series security appliance. To answer your question, no, ASA 5500 series cannot do Cable-Based Active/Active Failover,
When the security appliance is configured for Active/Active stateful failover, you cannot enable IPSec or SSL VPN. These features are unavailable. VPN failover is available for Active/Standby failover configurations only.
10-03-2011 10:47 PM
you can use RJ-45 straight through cable and make a stateful failover
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