ASA Versions and Failover

[jpl861]

Hi,

Need your help on this guys.

We currently have two ASA 5510 firewalls in two locations. One in each and they don't have a standby pair. Now, I wanted to put them together in one site and replace the other one with ASA5520. Now my question is, I need to know if the ASA5510 hardware are the same type. They are both ASA 5510 but I am wondering why the other firewall is displaying ASA-5510-K8 and the other one is only ASA-5510.

Here's the output of both firewalls:

ASA1:

Hardware:   ASA5510, 256 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 4 Celeron 1600 MHz

Encryption hardware device : Cisco ASA-55x0 on-board accelerator (revision 0x0)

This platform has an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.0(2)

Device Manager Version 6.0(2)

ASA2:

Hardware:   ASA5510-K8, 256 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 4 Celeron 1600 MHz

Encryption hardware device : Cisco ASA-55x0 on-board accelerator (revision 0x0)

This platform has an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.0(2)

Device Manager Version 6.0(2)

The "Licensed features for this platform" output of show version is the same as well.

Are these firewalls the same?

Thanks in advance,

John

[varrao]

Hi John,

They are the same hardware but I guess previous the part number for ASA 5510 was ASA 5510 only, now the part number has changed to ASA 5510-K8 thats the reason for it, so I guess it should work for you beacuse all the things look the same.

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

Varun

[mirober2]

Hi John,

Yes, the firewalls are the same hardware platform. They are both 5510s, so they will be able to sync as a failover pair.

Hope that helps.

-Mike