Cisco ASA 5510 CPU Uograde

[BlueMonkeyFish]

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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[hairlessupportmonkey]

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

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[w33mhz]

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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[BlueMonkeyFish]

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.

 

[ISPKing]

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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