Re: New ASA 5505: To Upgrade OS and ASDM or Not?

This is quite interesting cause in our environment we have been asked to
move to 8 due to the bugs in 7.2.2 and 7.2.3. First problem we had was with
a bad memory leak which would require us to failover/reboot
primary/failback. We origionally worked w/TAC on 7.2.2 and were given the
caveat explaining the bug and told to go to 7.2.3 which was supposed to
resolve it. We did as requested and suffered the same fate with memory
leaking and forcing reboot about every 2-3 weeks. We were then told to move
to version 8 when it was released to resolve the issue due to a new caveat.
We have not did this yet but are in the process due to the amount of clients
involved. Another bug we ran into and was provided the caveat for was when
we fail the units to repair the memory leak their is another bug which
affects l2l connections causing 1 way traffic due to reverse route injection
somehow being lost after a failover. Again we were told to move to version
8 to resolve this as well. Sad part is we have been informed of numerious
bugs w/8 code also so this may turn into a nasty upgrade for us. Just FYI
our environment uses the firewalls mainly for outside in entry to our local
network with multiple l2l connections, 200+ SSL connections and 50+ IPSec
connections. We do have 7.2.2 code and 8 code running on some 5505's doing
nothing but l2l connections that have ran w/out issues for quite a while.
Your milage may vary.


"Buck Rogers" <buck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:v0jgn3th89rqdoo3hal7avtoe7j31htvdv@xxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

Based on input within this newsgroup, I purchased an ASA 5505 for a
client. I've configured it, tested it and all works great. This
client needs the unit for a stepped-up firewall compared to what he
used to have (basic Netgear firewall), plus usage for VPN purposes (7
employees).

The unit I purchased is running OS version 7.2(3) and ASDM version
5.2(3). Should I upgrade the OS version to 8.0(3) and the ASDM
version to 6.0(3) prior to bringing it on-line?

Whether yes or no, I'd appreciate you sharing your reasoning, as I'm
averse to upgrading "just because it's available".

Regards and Happy New Year,

Buck


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