CCNP - PIX failover

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PIX failover

beenframed

2001-12-10, 11:14 pm

Quick question for anyone whose familiar with setting up failover pixies. Is there a network failover or does it just use that special failover cable that a pair comes with?

If im using that failover cable do I also need to configure an ethernet interface on each of the pix's with a crossover cable?
Or would that serve no purpose?

Thanks,

--bf

MadChef

2001-12-11, 5:50 am

That special cable alone will give you non-stateful failover. If one pix dies you'll be able to then generate new connections out the other one.
Add a network interface (a crossover cable between the two pixes) and define that as your failover interface and you get stateful failover. Those interfaces are used to transfer state between the boxes and I believe they have to run at 100/full. TCP connections are maintained when you active box chokes with this setup.
When configuruing any sort of failover, you must be very carefull to bring link up on all your interfaces (even if you aren't using them), otherwise the box will try to fail over.

Hope this makes sense and let me know if you have any questions.

MadChef

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