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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 Configuring a Cluster of ASAs
Information About ASA Clustering
Policy-Based Routing (Routed Firewall Mode Only)
When using Individual interfaces, each ASA interface maintains its own IP address and MAC address.
One method of load balancing is Policy-Based Routing (PBR).
We recommend this method if you are already using PBR, and want to take advantage of your existing
infrastructure. This method might offer additional tuning options vs. Spanned EtherChannel as well.
PBR makes routing decisions based on a route map and ACL. You must manually divide traffic between
all ASAs in a cluster. Because PBR is static, it may not achieve the optimum load balancing result at all
times. To achieve the best performance, we recommend that you configure the PBR policy so that
forward and return packets of a connection are directed to the same physical ASA. For example, if you
have a Cisco router, redundancy can be achieved by using IOS PBR with Object Tracking. IOS Object
Tracking monitors each ASA using ICMP ping. PBR can then enable or disable route maps based on
reachability of a particular ASA. See the following URLs for more details:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6599/products_white_paper09186a00800a4409.shtml
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_3t/12_3t4/feature/guide/gtpbrtrk.html#wp1057830
Note
If you use this method of load-balancing, you can use a device-local EtherChannel as an Individual
interface.
Router or
Access Switch
Virtual Switch Link
Router or
Access Switch
Virtual Switch Link
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ASA1
ASA2
ASA3
ASA4
ASA1
ASA8
Switch 2
Switch 1
Switch 2
Switch 1
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port-channel1
port-channel1
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Summary of Contents for 5505 - ASA Firewall Edition Bundle
Page 28: ...Glossary GL 24 Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide ...
Page 61: ...P A R T 1 Getting Started with the ASA ...
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Page 219: ...P A R T 2 Configuring High Availability and Scalability ...
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Page 403: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Interfaces ...
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Page 499: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Basic Settings ...
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Page 533: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Objects and Access Lists ...
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Page 601: ...P A R T 2 Configuring IP Routing ...
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Page 745: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Network Address Translation ...
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Page 845: ...P A R T 2 Configuring AAA Servers and the Local Database ...
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Page 981: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Access Control ...
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Page 1061: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Service Policies Using the Modular Policy Framework ...
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Page 1093: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Application Inspection ...
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Page 1191: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Unified Communications ...
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Page 1333: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Connection Settings and QoS ...
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Page 1379: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Advanced Network Protection ...
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Page 1475: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Modules ...
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Page 1549: ...P A R T 2 Configuring VPN ...
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Page 1965: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Logging SNMP and Smart Call Home ...
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Page 2059: ...P A R T 2 System Administration ...
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