What To Do Next - Cisco 5510 - ASA SSL / IPsec VPN Edition Quick Start Manual

What to Do Next

What to Do Next
Cisco ASA 5580 Series Quick Start Guide
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High Capacity (PCI Express x8 non-hot-plug)—Slots 5, 7, and 8
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Each PCI bus connects to one of two I/O bridges:
I/O bridge 1: Slot 3, slot 4, slot 5, and slot 6; also, Management 0/0 and 0/1
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I/O bridge 2: Slot 7 and slot 8
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See the Cisco ASA 5580 Adaptive Security Appliance Hardware Installation
Guide for more information about the network interfaces on the ASA 5580.
Optimizing Performance
You should use the high-capacity slots for 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters; other
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adapters can be placed in any slot.
Have equal amounts of traffic on both I/O bridges.
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Keep traffic flow within the same I/O bridge.
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The ideal traffic distribution would be that half the traffic stays on slots 7 and
8, while the other half of the traffic stays on slots 3 through 6 (achieving both
best practices above). If you cannot achieve both practices, then you should
follow the best practice to equally distribute traffic between the bridges.
See the Cisco ASA 5580 Adaptive Security Appliance Hardware Installation
Guide for more information about maximizing throughput on the ASA 5580.
Continue with Chapter 6, "Configuring the ASA."
Chapter 4 Installing the ASA 5580
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