Solved: cisco asa 5500 vpn sessions

Asthaonard · ‎05-18-2010

Hi there

it may sound like a trivial question, but does anybody know what exactly means
"Maximum site-to-site and remote access VPN sessions"

lets take ASA 5505
it is stated, that it supports up to 10 sessions

does it mean that i can interconnect 10 of these devices together over VPN with some count of PC's behind each of them

or maybe it means, that only 10 PC's can communicate over VPN *simultaneously*, even if i have 10 ASA's interconnected together like in previous example

thank you for advice
Andrew

Richard Burts · ‎05-19-2010

For site to site VPN a session is a connection between 2 firewall/VPN devices.

For remote access VPN a session is a PC with VPN session to the ASA.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick

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Ganesh Hariharan · ‎05-20-2010

Thank you for reply

but what is session in the case of site-to-site vpn?

Is this a session between computers connected over vpn,

or may be, this is a session between firewall/vpn devices?

As Rick said session means for site to site between the devices at each location for remote to site pc to vpn concentrator.

Hope to Help !!

Ganesh.H

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Ganesh Hariharan · ‎05-18-2010

Hi there

it may sound like a trivial question, but does anybody know what exactly means
"Maximum site-to-site and remote access VPN sessions"

lets take ASA 5505
it is stated, that it supports up to 10 sessions

does it mean that i can interconnect 10 of these devices together over VPN with some count of PC's behind each of them

or maybe it means, that only 10 PC's can communicate over VPN *simultaneously*, even if i have 10 ASA's interconnected together like in previous example

thank you for advice
Andrew

Hi Andrew,

As per the link i think 10 concurrent session for site to site with 25 remote to site with security plus license.

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

Hope to help !!

Ganesh.H

Asthaonard · ‎05-19-2010

Thank you for reply

but what is session in the case of site-to-site vpn?

Is this a session between computers connected over vpn,

or may be, this is a session between firewall/vpn devices?

Richard Burts · ‎05-19-2010

For site to site VPN a session is a connection between 2 firewall/VPN devices.

For remote access VPN a session is a PC with VPN session to the ASA.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick

Ganesh Hariharan · ‎05-20-2010

Thank you for reply

but what is session in the case of site-to-site vpn?

Is this a session between computers connected over vpn,

or may be, this is a session between firewall/vpn devices?

As Rick said session means for site to site between the devices at each location for remote to site pc to vpn concentrator.

Hope to Help !!

Ganesh.H

Remember to rate the helpful post

Asthaonard · ‎05-20-2010

Thank you guys

You really helped me