I have a WAAS deployment where there is a reasonable amount of traffic that goes through a firewall. Logically speaking the traffic goes from client to waas to remote waas then through a firewall to the server. I believe that the WAAS devices use IP options to communicate between each other.

My question is if the firewall (a Cisco ASA) blocks IP options will this prevent WAAS from working in my topology? I know there is an inspect command to allow WAAS to work through a firewall, but there is a memory leak in that command under 7.2(3) so I would like to avoid using it if I can.