General Security Appliance Enhancements

  • Same security level communications

  • No NAT functionality

  • VPN stateful failover

  • Interoperability with IOS CA server

  • Asymmetric routing

  • OSPF neighbor

  • PIM-Sparse mode

  • Ping enhancements

  • 4096-bit RSA Key support

  • Policing

  • Logging enhancements

  • Virtual firewall support

Details for these general new features and enhancements are defined in the sections that follow.

Same Security Level Communications

This new ASA/PIX version 7 feature enables you to set more than one interface to the same security level. This enables two-way traffic flow between these interfaces, similar to a router.

You configure this feature at the following ASDM panel:

Configuration > Features > Interfaces

No NAT Functionality

This new ASA/PIX version 7 feature ...

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