Thanks for the reply,

so if the ASA's have version 7.x or above, you can configure them as you would with 2 PIX's?

with a serial cable as the failover interface?

I breifly drafted through and probably not taking it all in properly.

Thanks again!

Mario

OK - here's the thing, the serial cable ONLY carries failover hello's and config replication etc.

If you want statefull failover you need to have a LAN connection between the 2 devices.

HTH>

right OK...

thanks for the help Andrew, much appreciated.

Ooops, forgot to ask... are there any special software/license requirements. Or would this be possible out of the box?

You need to have the failover option in the license on both units.

Hi Andrew,

thanks very much for the info.

Do you know what the below quote means from the article? not too familiar with different contexts.

Note: VPN failover is not supported on units that run in multiple context mode as VPN is not supported in multiple context. VPN failover is available only for Active/Standby Failover configurations in single context configurations.

Thanks!

If you do not know what contexts are, you are not using them - you don't need to worry about them.

lol, OK fair enough...

I am going to start comparing the 2 models... 5505's and 5510's.

Thanks for your help so far.

;o)

Hi Andrew,

i've found the page that advises thatr the feature is not available on the 5505...

let me know what you think...

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6120/prod_models_comparison.html

Thanks

The 5505 is for small sites, if you want failover you need the 5520 and above.

ok, now i'm confused...

so the 5505 & 5510 units do not apply to the URL that you posted right at the beggining of this conversation, no?

in general terms, for stateful failover, we need to be looking at 5520??

Mario