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Cisco ASA5510

I need to check check max throughput of our Gig ASA-5510...

this link suggests it could be either 150 or 300Mbps..?

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/prod_models_comparison.html
'Up to 150 Mbps with AIP SSM-10; 300 Mbps with AIP SSM-20'

If two of these were setup as active-active pair - would we get effectively double throughput? Are these actual working figures (or max possible)?

Thanks

rauenpc

Your throughput depends on whether or not you are using the SSM modules. If you don't have the hardware modules installed or you don't have traffic going through them then you have the 300M throughput. Otherwise it's based on the SSM module.

Active/active won't necessarily give you any extra throughput at all. if you have multiple contexts configured, and you have context1 active on ASA1 and context 2 active on ASA2, then potentially you can go beyond the 300M limit. However, most configurations don't actually employee a true active/active topology since only a single default context is configured. With a single context traffic only goes through one active ASA at a time

max_the_king

Hi,
yes you should double with active/active config.
No that is max possible, although i've never reached that limit with my ASAs, and I never experienced any problem so far.

hope this helps
max

oasisuk

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Can I check remotely if I have the SSM modules installed?

If it doesn't have this, I could upgrade the module on the existing model?

Thanks

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