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Cisco ASA 5510 CPU Uograde

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Aug 6, 2011
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I had purchased a 5510 for my home lab, and i was wondering if a cpu upgrade (currently has an intel celeron installed) would render performance increases such as higher throughput than advertised? has anyone done this or have proof of concept?

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no real reason why not, however dont the 5510 have slots for adding hardware acceleration for things like VPN etc?

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Wouldn't a memory upgrade do the trick? Unless you are doing a lot of encryption i.e. VPNs I wouldn't think that you would need to increase the calculations output.

Just a thought, I maybe wrong.

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the reason i was curious is because with a license upgrade the number of connections increase significantly, which is usually dependant on the amount of memory. i was just curious if cisco has a hard limit on their throughput as well.

other things a license upgrade does is enable two of the 10/100/100 ports to function at gig speeds rather than the 100 imposed.

i dont see why they would limit the connection negotiated for, but like microsoft, everyone is catching on to the licensing.
 
They are hard limits across the platforms. Not Hardware limited.
If you were to hit 50,000 connections on a asa 5510 is will display the message maximum connections hit, and will not accept or create any new connections.

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