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Have an ASA that is over utilized in general. Working on temporary measures to free up any resources/bandwidth on the box. Until new hardware arrives<br />
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What is the danger of setting the Timeout Conn to say, 5, or 2 minutes? This FW is mostly used for web browsing traffic. I believe I read an article on increasing ASA performance suggesting to lower it to 2 minutes, which is the default for the FWSM module. <br />
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Thoughts?
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Have an ASA that is over utilized in general. Working on temporary measures to free up any resources/bandwidth on the box. Until new hardware arrives

What is the danger of setting the Timeout Conn to say, 5, or 2 minutes? This FW is mostly used for web browsing traffic. I believe I read an article on increasing ASA performance suggesting to lower it to 2 minutes, which is the default for the FWSM module. 

Thoughts?

Cisco ASA Timeout Conn setting, what are the risks of lowering?

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TCP/IP

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