Hello Clark,The 1st query was regarding the FWSM and not for the ASA, In ASA i have no doubts for the security-level.My Response holds true for both FWSM as well as ASA in response to your first question on the Security Levels, i just edited my previ...

Reudinger,Taking into consideration that you have already checked the relavent release notes and also made sure that basic connectivity as well as reachability between the firewall and the CNA is available and working, Can you please do the following...

Hello Clark,i'll answer both your questions though its not in the failover topic we are discussing: In FWSM traffic flowing from lower security level to higher  level requires access-list and NAT and also from higher security level  to lower security...

Hello Karthik,Yes we can use the same Physical Interface for both the Failover Lan and State links, it should not be a problem. However this has to be planned well, for example you have 8 interfaces (6 Gig + 2 FA) and you make the FA Interface the Fa...

Hello Zubair,Even though you had a failover, i do not think you had an outage because of this as i assume you would have had Stateful Failover enabled which is the norm today with all of Cisco Firewalls. I realize the Firewall did what it had to do a...