ASA5510-AIP10-K9 and Security Plus License

[timmatthews]

Am I mad? I tried to upgrade this base ASA device so I could make use of the Gigabit Ethernet which should work after the upgrade. I completed the license upgrade in the GUI and it was accepted see attached. I still have no GBe ports and the license had actually lowered the VPN count rather than increasing it. I have two identical devices which I need to run in A/A mode but am confused by the results. Please can anyone advise me?

[suschoud · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Please upgrade to 7.2.4.

e0/0 and e0/1 will start behaving as gig ports.

VPn count would be upto your satisfaction.

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Regards,

Sushil

[timmatthews]

thanks v much Sushil, I guess I now have to upgrade to the 2 major release following 7.0(8)and then to 7.2..?

If the IOS works the same as routers, can you confirm this is the process, I only bought the ASA two days ago and Cisco won't support me because my SmartNET hasn't arrived yet!

[suschoud]

You can directly upgrade to 7.2.4.

Here are the upgrade steps:

Download the asa software (asa724-k8.bin)from here:

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/asa

Download the TFTP server from here:

http://tftpd32.jounin.net/

-Unzip the TFTP server on a computer on the network

-copy the asa724-k8.bin file in the same extracted folder

-doubleclick on tftpd32.exe

-When you click on the 'show dir' button on the tftp server, the asa724-k8.bin file should be one of the listed files

-in the configuration terminal mode of the asa first ping the tftp server computer's ip address (you should be able to get ping responses)

-enter the command 'copy tftp flash'

-enter the ip address of the tftp server computer (press enter)and then enter asa724-k8.bin as the file name (press enter)

-it will ask you 'do you wish to proceed' - press 'y' for yes

-once you are back to the prompt issue the command

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asa(config)# sh flash

Directory of flash:/

3 drw- 128 12:40:35 May 07 2006 asa724-k8.bin

7 -rw- 5539756 18:36:21 Jun 07 2006 asdm-521.bin

6 -rw- 1858 12:40:36 May 07 2006 downgrade.cfg

12 -rw- 8202240 18:29:04 Jun 07 2006 asa722-k8.bin

You would see asa724-k8.bin file in the list.

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asa(config)# sh run boot

boot system flash:/asa802-k8.bin

This command tells us which file is in the boot system.

We need to change that to 803.bin.

That can be done by the command,

asa(config)#boot system flash:/asa724-k8.bin

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'reload' to reboot the asa so that the new software version takes affect

-when the asa boots up again, issue 'show version' command to confirm if the new software is now running on the asa.

Do rate helpful posts.

Regards,

Sushil

[timmatthews]

excellent, completely forgot about the appended bin file in boot, so pointed to 803, having reloaded 7.11/7.12 etc all the way up to 7.24 (time wasted, lol) anyway working fine - thanks again for your assistance on this one.

[timmatthews]

thanks Sushil I will try this process now and let you know how it goes.