jasonmichel
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just thought i'd get some opinions on hardware recommendation. We currently have a cisco 2821 with a 4 port HWIC add in, basically it acts as internet gateway, and vpn end point for tunnels and vpn clients. I was wondering what we should replace it with. We want to move to the any connect vpn as well. So what are everyones thoughts?
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(for ASA, the 4-port ethernet card is "4GE SSM") Check this for more details: Cisco Docs
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yeah we are currently only using the g0/g1 and then 2 of the 4 port HWIC, can the management port on the ASA be used as the LAN interface?
Yes, the management interface can be used like any other interface.
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looking at the 5550 and the 5540 it looks like the 50 has more throughput and horsepower but doesn't have any add on capability, would that make the 40 a better solution even though it don't have as much base?
That depends, do you need the horsepower (how big is your network) or do you need the add-ons?
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we have about 350 local users and another 100 or so at the remote offices that occasionally traverse ipsec tunnels for data. probably 50-75 VPN users, we have a 10gbe network now with cisco 2960 and dual 4900's in a HRSP config
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oh currently using iprism for web filter, so the 2821 is using wccp to hand off to iprism
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thanks for all the help guys, really helped!
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