ASA firewall upgrade 8.4(x)

[pemasirid]

Hi,

Recently I have upgraded my a firewall runing version 8.2 to ver 8.4.2, when I gave show version I could see as following

Maximum Physical Interfaces       : Unlimited      perpetual

Maximum VLANs                     : 150            perpetual

Inside Hosts                      : Unlimited      perpetual

Failover                          : Active/Active  perpetual

VPN-DES                           : Enabled        perpetual

VPN-3DES-AES                      : Enabled        perpetual

Security Contexts                 : 2              perpetual

GTP/GPRS                          : Disabled       perpetual

AnyConnect Premium Peers          : 500            perpetual

AnyConnect Essentials             : Disabled       perpetual

Other VPN Peers                   : 750            perpetual

Total VPN Peers                   : 750            perpetual

Shared License                    : Disabled       perpetual

AnyConnect for Mobile             : Disabled       perpetual

AnyConnect for Cisco VPN Phone    : Disabled       perpetual

Advanced Endpoint Assessment      : Disabled       perpetual

UC Phone Proxy Sessions           : 2              perpetual

Total UC Proxy Sessions           : 2              perpetual

Botnet Traffic Filter             : Disabled       perpetual

Intercompany Media Engine         : Disabled       perpetual

Can someone please advise me what does really mean perpetual  here. (I know the word perpetual mean somthing not change) and why doest it automatically adding to the show version output on vers 8.4.(x), is there any specific reason..?

thanks in advance.

[289114]

Hi,

I think perpetual means unlimited duration of time

Regards,

Sayed

[varrao]

No,  For permenent key, it displays the keyword of 'perpetual', for timebased keys it displays the duration of the key in terms of the days, the show version may read like this as well:

Maximum Physical Interfaces    : Unlimited      perpetual
   Maximum VLANs                  : 0              perpetual
   Inside Hosts                   : Unlimited      perpetual
   Failover                       : Disabled       perpetual
   VPN-DES                        : Disabled       perpetual
   VPN-3DES-AES                   : Enabled        perpetual
   Security Contexts              : 12             perpetual
   GTP/GPRS                       : Enabled        perpetual
   SSL VPN Peers                  : 4              perpetual
   Total VPN Peers                : 0              perpetual
   Shared License                 : Disabled       perpetual
   AnyConnect for Mobile          : Disabled       perpetual
   AnyConnect for Cisco VPN Phone : Disabled       perpetual
   AnyConnect Essentials          : Disabled       perpetual
   Advanced Endpoint Assessment   : Disabled       perpetual
   UC Phone Proxy Sessions        : 4              perpetual
   Total UC Proxy Sessions        : 4              perpetual
   Botnet Traffic Filter          : Enabled        33 days
   Intercompany Media Engine      : Disabled       perpetual

Hope this clears out your doubts,

Thanks,
Varun