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physical interfaces on ASA5520

My ASA5520 has 4 GE NIC, and one FE NIC/MGMT.

Right now of my four GE NICs, I have outside, inside, dmz, and the fourth NIC is being using for failover cable.

I need to add one more physical network segment, inside2. Can this be done on that 5 NIC the FE/MGMT? Or can failover be moved to the FE/ MGMT NIC freeing up the last GE port?

I used to do this on PIX 515E's which had 6 interfaces, so failover cable, and the statefull link, still left me me with enough NICs to do this.

Thanks John

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essenz
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There are multiple ways to do that. You can add Cisco ASA 5500 Series

4-Port GE SSM card and get 4 more GE ports. You can configure management interface to carry production traffic (you will need Security Plus license, below is URL with description)

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Or you can use VLANs to get additional segments.

I don't think it's a good idea to move fail-over to FE interface. If I remember it correctly, it should be as fast as fastest interface on the box.

Regards, Andrey.

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Andrey Tarasov

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