I have a 5540 ASA 8.2 , I'am thinking of erasing the configs and upgrade the ios to the latest version , would that have any impact an the existing licenses .
you can erase your config without losing the licenses. They are not stored in the config.
Do you have 2GB of RAM? That is the requirement for the actual software.
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