Hello, I have a standby FWSM in a Cat6500 whose backplane etherchannel is in a down state: switch#sh int port-channel 270 switchport Name: Po270Switchport: EnabledAdministrative Mode: trunkOperational Mode: downAdministrative Trunking Encapsulation: ...

I'm trying to implement an L2L tunnel between our office and the data center. Currently we have an ASA 5510 in the office and a 6500 with a Firewall Service Module added on. From what I've read, the FWSM can only vpn tunnel for management. My though...

I was looking at this example, but I don't have a VPN Service Module on our 6500:http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk583/tk372/technologies_configuration_example09186a00800f6d82.shtmlI'm wondering if this is even possible without the VPN Service Module...