asa ios upgrade

clarson

I was able to get a asa5510 for really cheap. So, I'm look to make some use of it. But, the ios is really old. I can do a copy from a tftp server with no problem. But, can i just do one big jump in ios version or will it need to be done in steps. Does other firmware need upgrading also. And, what other software should I put on it.

CISCO SYSTEMS
Embedded BIOS Version 1.0(11)2 01/25/06 13:21:26.17

Low Memory: 631 KB
High Memory: 1024 MB
Cisco Systems ROMMON Version (1.0(11)2) #0: Thu Jan 26 10:43:08PST 2006
Platform ASA5510
Loading disk0:/asa723-k8.bin... Booting...
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1024MB RAM
Total SSMs found: 0
Total NICs found: 7
mcwa i82557 Ethernet at irq 11 MAC: 001e.1359.44c3
mcwa i82557 Ethernet at irq 5 MAC: 0000.0001.0001
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 3 index 00 MAC:001e.1359.44c4
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 3 index 01 MAC:001e.1359.44c5
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 2 index 02 MAC:001e.1359.44c6
i82546GB rev03 Ethernet @ irq09 dev 2 index 03 MAC:001e.1359.44c7
i82547GI rev00 Gigabit Ethernet @ irq11 dev 1 index 05 MAC:0000.0001.0002

Licensed features for this platform:
Maximum Physical Interfaces : Unlimited
Maximum VLANs : 100
InsideHosts : Unlimited
Failover : Active/Active
VPN-DES : Enabled
VPN-3DES-AES : Enabled
SecurityContexts : 2
GTP/GPRS : Disabled
VPN Peers : 250
WebVPNPeers : 2

This platform has an ASA 5510 Security Plus license.

Encryption hardware device : Cisco ASA-55x0 on-board accelerator(revision 0x0)
Boot microcode : CNlite-MC-Boot-Cisco-1.2
SSL/IKE microcode: CNlite-MC-IPSEC-Admin-3.03
IPSec microcode : CNlite-MC-IPSECm-MAIN-2.04
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 7.2(3)
ciscoasa# show flash
Initializing disk0: cache, please wait....Done.
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6 5511168 Jan 01 2003 00:06:30asa707-k8.bin
7 0 Jan 30 2008 02:13:06 crypto_archive
8 6161700 Jan 30 2008 02:15:50asdm-507.bin
11 8386560 Apr 09 2008 08:41:02 asa723-k8.bin

235298816 bytes available (20127744 bytes used)

docrice

To clarify, ASA software is not IOS. To answer your question, there are cases where you must upgrade to intermediary version(s) when going from an older version to something recent or the latest. For example, going directly from 8.2x to 9.x won't work. The release notes for each version should specifiy which minimum versions are needed.