Setting the "other-config-flag" or O-bit on a Cisco ASA

[Carl Holzhauer]

If you do the memory upgrade, you don't have to get the Cisco ram...there is a significant cost savings there.

I would highly suggest you contact your Cisco rep and request the feature; they aren't going to change any features without input from users.

Also, if you use the ASDM to look at traffic, I would also suggest that you tell your account rep you want the ASDM to resolve addresses via DNS.  It's not bad to do a manual lookup on an IPv4 address, but trying to do a lookup on a IPv6 address becomes more cumbersome



-----Original Message-----
From: ipv6-ops-bounces+cholzhauer=sscorp.com at lists.cluenet.de [mailto:ipv6-ops-bounces+cholzhauer=sscorp.com at lists.cluenet.de] On Behalf Of Jim Kirby
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 10:53 AM
To: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
Subject: Re: Setting the "other-config-flag" or O-bit on a Cisco ASA

Another point to consider is that any ASA shipped before 2/10/2010 will require a significant DRAM upgrade and possibly an internal flash upgrade in order to run anything newer than 8.3 (the latest is 8.4.x).
--
Jim Kirby
Director of Engineering
Dataware Services
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On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote:

> Good point.  But changing a customer's network topology to get IPv6 
> support is not a winning approach.  Hopefully Cisco can surprise us 
> and get that feature put in earlier rather than later.  We have quite 
> a few customers that use a small ASA their edge network device.
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale W. Carder [mailto:dwcarder at wisc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 9:26 AM
> To: Eric Vyncke (evyncke)
> Cc: frnkblk at iname.com; ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
> Subject: Re: Setting the "other-config-flag" or O-bit on a Cisco ASA
> 
> Another option you may be able to consider is to run the ASA in 
> transparent mode and letting the router route.  This depends on your 
> topology, of course.
> 
> Dale
> 
> Thus spake Eric Vyncke (evyncke) (evyncke at cisco.com) on Thu, Mar 24, 
> 2011 at 02:52:37PM +0100:
>> Frank,
>> 
>> I am afraid that there is currently no way for ASA to set the O-bit 
>> (or
> even the M-bit or the router priority)...
>> 
>> Next version (end of this year) should have those needed features...
>> 
>> Some customers are using a Linux box to send RA with the O-bit
> information, same prefix and low priority
>> 
>> -?ric
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ipv6-ops-bounces+evyncke=cisco.com at lists.cluenet.de
> [mailto:ipv6-ops-
>>> bounces+evyncke=cisco.com at lists.cluenet.de] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk
>>> Sent: jeudi 24 mars 2011 14:39
>>> To: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
>>> Subject: Setting the "other-config-flag" or O-bit on a Cisco ASA
>>> 
>>> We have customers that use an ASA and would like to use stateless 
>>> DHCPv6
> on
>>> their Windows 2008 server to get the DNSv6 servers.  I don't see 
>>> "ipv6
> nd
>>> other-config-flag" on our ASA nor in the documentation.  How do 
>>> people
> pull
>>> this off?
>>> 
>>> Frank
>> 
> 
>