Re: Thoughts on the new Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls

[Aaron Smith <smitha () byui edu>]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 11:37 -0500, Chris Byrd wrote:
> I consult with a company that is currently in the process of
> purchasing a new Pix firewall failover pair.  However, last week Cisco
> announced the new ASA 5500 series that should be available (according
> to Cisco) by the end of the month.  I normally don't recommend going
> with anything that new, but for the about same price the ASA appears
> to have a much more robust feature set.
>
> What are your thoughts on the new ASA from Cisco?  Would the
> additional features (IPS, AV, integrated VPN, active-active failover)
> be worth the risk of being on the cutting-edge?  Has anyone on the
> list worked with one yet?

FWIW, the new PIX 7.0 code will do active-active failover (and a bunch
of other cool stuff).  Of course, you have to purchase the active-active
license :^)

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@@ron Smith <smitha () byui edu>
Network Operations
Brigham Young University Idaho

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