On 20 June 2012 10:44, Chris Piggott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > I believe this is faulty / incorrect RAM when I've seen this before was when > trying to use non 'cisco supplied' RAM in an ASA.
thanks for that, I had considered a possible hardware fault, but discounted it because I had assumed that a reload would mostly do the same thing as a power-on reset, so it's all a bit strange! We do have a maintenance contract on these which has recently been renewed so I will talk to Cisco TAC and see what they say. These firewalls are not doing anything clever - they're internal firewalls between web servers and back-end, so I guess their memory requirements aren't huge - no VPNs, just stateful filters, so perhaps I am lucky in the faulty RAM doesn't get used? The pair of ASA5505's would have their original RAM in them, 256MB, because when I tried to upgrade to 844, I got this: ** ----> Minimum Memory Requirements NOT Met! <---- ** ** Installed RAM: 256 MB ** ** Required RAM: 512 MB ** ** Upgrade part#: ASA5505-MEM-512= ** I've not dismantled one, I had kind of assumed there would be on-board/soldered RAM and some sort of DIMM slot. Luckily I've been testing the ASA upgrade on the 2ndry/failover pair so the primary was untouched. thanks again Paul
