For a few days now I have been playing with static route tracking in my SNAF class.  The class is running ASA 8.0 (2).  After reading every document I can find and testing in my lab I have concluded that version 8.0 (2) does not work.  Now I can’t find a bug report on it, but i tested it over and over again.

Finally I decided to upgrade to code 8.0 (3).  Success!  Below is what I did to test and the results:

To begin, here is the topology:

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First I set up the interfaces:

interface GigabitEthernet0/0
nameif outside
security-level 0
ip address 192.168.6.2 255.255.255.0
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
nameif inside
security-level 100
ip address 10.0.6.1 255.255.255.0
!
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
nameif backup
security-level 0
ip address 192.168.5.25 255.255.255.0
!