
Switch ports on the same VLAN can communicate with each other. You assign the switch ports to logical VLAN interfaces. There are 8 FastEthernet switch ports that forward traffic at Layer 2. If the customer’s asking for failover and content checking or IPS, then we’re already looking at a network with more traffic than a 5505 can handle.Ĭonfiguration of the 5505’s interfaces is a wee bit different from the bigger models because the 5505 is basically a switch with VLANs. The deciding factors are usually price and capacity. In larger businesses with hub-and-spoke VPN topologies, I tend to deploy the higher-end ASA models at the main office (the hub), and only use the 5505 model at the remote offices (the spokes).

Small footprint, good price point for SoHo environments. The Cisco ASA 5505 is the lowest-end ASA.
