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VPN Licenses

Can someone please explain to me the difference between the user license and IPSec license? When do you need which license? I tried looking for information about this question but seems like there is none.

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Richard Burts
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Anatoliy

The user license is more related to using the ASA as a firewall and specifies the number of user/hosts on the inside for which it will provide protection. The IPSec licenses are for the ASA as it provides VPN processing.

So you are more concerned with the user license when your deployment of the ASA is for traditional firewall protection. And you are more concerned with IPSec licenses if your deployment of the ASA is to provide IPSec VPNs. And you would be concerned with both types of license if your deployment did both firewall and VPN processing.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick

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Richard Burts
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Anatoliy

The user license is more related to using the ASA as a firewall and specifies the number of user/hosts on the inside for which it will provide protection. The IPSec licenses are for the ASA as it provides VPN processing.

So you are more concerned with the user license when your deployment of the ASA is for traditional firewall protection. And you are more concerned with IPSec licenses if your deployment of the ASA is to provide IPSec VPNs. And you would be concerned with both types of license if your deployment did both firewall and VPN processing.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick

Rick Thank you very much for your answer!

Anatoliy

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HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick

Is there a way to see how many IPsec licenses a asa5520 is currently licensed for?

I know it can do 750 but how can we see how many actual licenese we have?

John

If I am understanding your question correctly the answer is shown in the output of show version on the ASA. Here is an extract of the output:

Licensed features for this platform:

Maximum Physical Interfaces : Unlimited

Maximum VLANs : 250

Inside Hosts : Unlimited

Failover : Active/Active

VPN-DES : Enabled

VPN-3DES-AES : Enabled

Security Contexts : 2

GTP/GPRS : Disabled

VPN Peers : 5000

WebVPN Peers : 50

So as you can see this ASA is licensed for 5000 IPSec VPN peers and for 50 SSL VPN peers.

HTH

Rick

HTH

Rick
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