ASA 5505 base and security plus

[sheldonscott]

The asa 5505 base does not allow failover but the security plus does. However does the security plus mean upgading code to support the acive/standby failover? Also since stateful failover is not supported in the 5505 base how much time can I expect to see during a failover to the standby?

[LSAEleander]

Scott,

It's a standby failover you can activate by buying the security plus.

Failover will occur in several seconds.

This link may give you a better insight:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps6120/products_configuration_example09186a0080834058.shtml#unsupport

But beware:

Up to now, A/A failover is not supported for VPN. Anyway, most customers think that A/A means load-balancing, and this is untrue!

Regards

[sheldonscott]

Thank you this was helpful. I guess that with the security plus license failover can work.