New ASA 9.4.1 release supports source routing?

[Michael Muenz]

Hey,

just saw the release notes for the new ASA 9.4.1 image:

Policy Based Routing (PBR) is a mechanism by which traffic is routed through specific paths with a specified QoS using ACLs. ACLs let traffic be classified based on the content of the packet’s Layer 3 and Layer 4 headers. This solution lets administrators provide QoS to differentiated traffic, distribute interactive and batch traffic among low-bandwidth, low-cost permanent paths and high-bandwidth, high-cost switched paths, and allows Internet service providers and other organizations to route traffic originating from various sets of users through well-defined Internet connections.

We introduced the following commands: set ip next-hop verify-availability, set ip next-hop, set ip next-hop recursive, set interface, set ip default next-hop, set default interface, set ip df, set ip dscp, policy-route route-map, show policy-route, debug policy-route

The focus here is on QoS, but if I understand correct, we can finally use source routing with the ASA, correct!? 

[Vibhor Amrodia · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes , You would finally be able to use Policy Based Routing on the basis of Source Address on the ASA device.

Thanks and Regards,

Vibhor Amrodia