hello all,
I have inherited a handful of Cisco ASA 5505s, I'm not sure what exact model they are but they are all 8 port models. I tried inputting serial numbers into the cisco coverage checker to see if it would give me model numbers and none of them are recognized by that particular utility, so unfortunately this is all the information I have to go on. I have a few questions below that I was wondering if anyone had an answer to.
1. I was curious, as they only have a 100MBPS indicator light whether these are actually only able to process at fast ethernet speeds, despite a reasonably recent production timeframe or whether that means that a link has been throttled down due to connection to older devices.
2. regardless of whether these are gig, or fast ports, does the ASA possess the ability to actually filter traffic at that rate, or is it similar to the cheaper cisco ISR series routers like the 2911 that have gig ethernet ports but are only able to process 345Mbps?
3. does enabling certain features such as the VPN, firewall, or both greatly affect the amount of traffic that is processed?
I am asking because I have just recently been given a dedicated gig connection for my department, but I'm currently only utilizing half that because I am running straight from an EOL 6509 core switch and this is highly insecure because we are only securing with ACLs at the moment. I would like to set up a pair of 2911 routers with GLBP (to increase to around 700 Mbps), but all of the ones I have available are only running IPbasek9, so even though bandwidth would increase, security is still a concern in that setup. I have zero budget for purchasing extra licenses or devices so I'm trying to get the best setup with what I have on hand.
