Cisco 7600 Series Module Guide

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Cisco 7600 Series Routers Module Guide
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Chapter 16 Adaptive Security Appliance Services Module
ASA SM Support
Support for ASA SM
ASA SM is supported on the following:
• 7606-S and 7609-S chassis
• Supervisor Engine 720 3B/ 3BXL, Route Switch Processor 720-1GE, and Route Switch Processor
720-10GE
Support on ASA SM
ASA SM supports the following:
• The ‘Autostate’ feature which allows the ASA SM blade to quickly detect that an interface
connected to a real host has failed
• Over two million firewall rules and 12 GB addressable memory
• Multicast features that include multicast routing protocols like PIM-SM and IGMP stubmode.
The span reflector that was needed on the Firewall Services Module to pass multicast is no longer
required.
• 250 virtual contexts and 1000 VLANs
• Network address translation (NAT) system and global access control lists (ACLs)
• ASA failover mechanism
The mechanism supports the following: high-speed failover between modules within a single Cisco
7600 chassis and high-speed failover between modules in separate chassis.
• Online diagnostic tests for bootup and periodic health monitoring. Health monitoring tests run at
intervals configured by the user. The default interval for tests is 15 seconds.
The tests include the following:
– Processor Complex (PC) Loopback Test checks the health of the two backplane ports which
form the data-path on ASA SM.
– PC Device Status Test retrieves the status of the various hardware devices controlled by the
processor complex.
– DataPort Loopback Test initiates a hardware loopback at the datapath field-programmable gate
array (FPGA) level with the capability to loop back diagnostic packets on the basis of a VLAN
match. This test verifies if the Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) hash algorithm worked over data
packets, and identifies the exact drop location of the packet within the FPGA.
– Management Port Loopback Test initiates a software loopback of diagnostic packets from the
inband port to test the health of the two management ports on the router service module. A
special global VLAN reserved for the online diagnostic packets uniquely identifies the packet
in the system. Run Software Loopback as a bootup, health monitoring, on-demand and
scheduled diagnostic test.

Cisco 7600 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	7600 Series
Category	Network Router
Language	English