WAN - Dual ISP's can ASA 5505 do load balancing as well

mawallace · ‎01-25-2010

I want to link ASA 5505 to two ISP's for backup purpsoses.

I can see this configuation example here

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_configuration_example09186a00806e880b.shtml

Question - does the ASA 5505 do load balacning as well for both connections - is there an example somewhere?

(I do not want to buy two ASA 5505's!) which seems the only way I could find configuation details for!

Jon Marshall · ‎01-25-2010

mawallace wrote:

I want to link ASA 5505 to two ISP's for backup purpsoses.

I can see this configuation example here

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_configuration_example09186a00806e880b.shtml

Question - does the ASA 5505 do load balacning as well for both connections - is there an example somewhere?

(I do not want to buy two ASA 5505's!) which seems the only way I could find configuation details for!

No the ASA will not load-balance and it actually states that in the document you provided a link to. If you want load-balancing you would need to look at a router rather than an ASA.

Jon

Ganesh Hariharan · ‎01-25-2010

No the ASA will not load-balance and it actually states that in the document you provided a link to. If you want load-balancing you would need to look at a router rather than an ASA.

Jon

Jon,

But we can provide the actvie/backup redudancy for links using ASA,I suppose as per cisco documentation.Kindly correct me if i am wrong.

Regards

Ganesh.H

Jon Marshall · ‎01-25-2010

ganeshh.iyer wrote:

No the
ASA will not load-balance and it actually states that in the document
you provided a link to. If you want load-balancing you would need to
look at a router rather than an ASA.

Jon

Jon,

But we can provide the actvie/backup redudancy for links using ASA,I suppose as per cisco documentation.Kindly correct me if i am wrong.

Regards

Ganesh.H

Ganesh

Yes you can and the OP actually was using the same doc you sent a link to. But his question was whether you can do load-balancing on the ASA and as the document says, no you can't.

You can do a form of load-balancing with active/active contexts but the OP only has one ASA anyway.

Jon

Ganesh Hariharan · ‎01-25-2010

Ganesh

Yes you can and the OP actually was using the same doc you sent a link to. But his question was whether you can do load-balancing on the ASA and as the document says, no you can't.

You can do a form of load-balancing with active/active contexts but the OP only has one ASA anyway.

Jon

Thanks for clarification Jon !!

Ganesh.H

Ganesh Hariharan · ‎01-25-2010

I want to link ASA 5505 to two ISP's for backup purpsoses.

I can see this configuation example here

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_configuration_example09186a00806e880b.shtml

Question - does the ASA 5505 do load balacning as well for both connections - is there an example somewhere?

(I do not want to buy two ASA 5505's!) which seems the only way I could find configuation details for!

Hi ,

Yes it is possible to have active/backup redundancy between the ISP using ASA 5505,check out the below link hope it will clear your query!!

http://www.cisco.biz/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_configuration_example09186a00806e880b.shtml

Hope to help !!

If helpful do rate the valaubale post.

Regards

Ganesh.H

badalamente · ‎12-12-2012

This looks like an old thread however...

I have some questions, I have an ASA 5505 and two ISP's.

In between the ASA 5505 I have a PL600 (Powerlink) Load Balancer.

Both ISP's have been configured on two of the PL600's ports.

On the ASA 5505 how can I configure static routes on to both of those ISPS using one port, over to one port on the PL600?