IMHO, I don't think this is a marketing issue for cisco. It's a design issue. 
PIX/ASA is good at some things, and bad at others. They have never been good as 
routers. You have to remember, EIGRP didn't even come to the security line 
until 8.0 code and they still do not support traffic shaping. These services 
use memory and cpu resources which can dramatically reduce your ability to get 
through very long access lists. I am not positive on the ASAs, but I seem to 
remember that the routing features on the PIX was all done in software. If that 
is still true today, I can't imagine you could effectively perform stateful 
inspection, access lists, maybe VPN services, and BGP for a 100Mb+ internet 
connection on even a 5585. They just aren't that powerful.


 


Dylan Ebner

-----Original Message-----
From: srg [mailto:srgqwe...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:43 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: BGP support on ASA5585-X

Hi:

At this moment we know that ASA5585-X does not support BGP.

Does anybody know if BGP support in the ASA5585-X is in roadmap?
More precisely... MP-BGP support in the ASA5585-X?
Any "oficial" link in the Cisco website about this? (I did't find it)

Thanks a lot and best regards


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