Cisco ASA 9.8 vs 9.12

[Eli Kagan]

A quick question to the community: is there a good reason to upgrade ASA 9.8 to 9.12?

I am running mostly Firepower 2100 ASA 9.8. I was wondering whether 9.12 has anything interesting to make it worthwhile?

Is it still two separate interfaces, i.e. FXOS and ASA or did they finally collapse it into one?

Thanks,

Eli

[Marvin Rhoads]

You now have the option to run it in appliance mode where you set everything in the ASA interface.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/fxos/config/asa-2100-fxos-config/intro.html

9.12 will also give you DTLS 1.2 support with AnyConnect - considerably faster throughput.

Other new features:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/fxos/config/asa-2100-fxos-config/intro.html