RE: Security home Lab & ASA 5505

From: Lab Rat #109385382 (techlist01@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 04 2006 - 21:36:07 ART


Stateless Active/Standby is supported in the 5505...however, it's a good
point if stateful and active/active will be tested...

-----Original Message-----
From: bona bona [mailto:bonalone@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:20 PM
To: techlist01@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Security home Lab & ASA 5505

another point is redundancy, as far as i know its supported on 5520 and
higher.

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><<Are you 100% sure about that?>>
>
>Unless Cisco changed something, yes, I'm sure.
>
><< If so, are you saying that the ASA 5505 would be a good, inexpensive
>choice for a home lab?>>
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>Just my opinion, but yes, I think so...for the v2.0 blueprint, that is...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim [mailto:ccie2be@nyc.rr.com]
>Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 3:53 PM
>To: 'Lab Rat #109385382'; 'Kal Han'
>Cc: security@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: Security home Lab & ASA 5505
>
>Are you 100% sure about that?
>
>If so, are you saying that the ASA 5505 would be a good, inexpensive choice
>for a home lab?
>
>Thanks
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Lab
>Rat #109385382
>Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 4:29 PM
>To: 'Kal Han'; Tim
>Cc: security@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: Security home Lab & ASA 5505
>
>FYI, you cannot do WebVPN on PIX 7.x...
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Kal
>Han
>Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 1:06 PM
>To: Tim
>Cc: security@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: Security home Lab & ASA 5505
>
>They only support 3 nameifs at a time.
>So you cannot have a setup that requires inside, outside, dmz10, dmz50 type
>of setups.
>
>the setup is very different from other ASAs and Pixes as they use Vlans for
>interfaces. It basically has a switch inside the box and all the interfaces
>actuall form a switch.
>
>I personally think PIX with 7.x image is a better choice than buying an
>ASA5505 as PIX will do everything with respect to exam compared to ASAs (
>not 5505 )
>
>Thanks
>Kal
>
>
>On 11/3/06, Tim <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to put together a CCIE Security home lab on the cheap.
> >
> >
> >
> > Aside from not being able to support multi context mode, how bad would
> > using a Cisco ASA 5505 be to prepare for the lab?
> >
> >
> >
> > Besides the lack of multi context mode, are there other features I
> > couldn't practice using with a 5505?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks, Tim
>



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