I don’t believe you have to attach the device to another switch… The IOS will create its own grouping internally… I am going to put this to the test tomorrow…I agree wholeheartedly it is a definite change in dynamic; but that was not the question po...

Brian:I respectfully have to disagree...Its all in a matter of knowing how to maneuver around the various options and the lack of youtube videos and config examples for real world configs  are very challenging here, to say the lease..This is a very s...

This problem is most likely attributed to a Speed / Duplex Mismatch.  On your ASA set the speed to fixed 100 and duplex to full; or whatever your connecting switch will TX/RX at with a fixed setting.Do this for both the outside and inside interfaces,...