04-20-2010 08:57 AM - edited 03-11-2019 10:35 AM
I am trying to understand why ASA firewall doesnt do loadbalancing or loadsharing in normal active-standby mode.
why does it need to be in context mode to be run as an active-active firewall.
Appreciate all your help!
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04-20-2010 09:18 AM
suthomas1 wrote:
I am trying to understand why ASA firewall doesnt do loadbalancing or loadsharing in normal active-standby mode.
why does it need to be in context mode to be run as an active-active firewall.
Appreciate all your help!
It's important to understand that within each context one firewall is active and one firewall is standby. So if you had 2 contexts - C1 and C2
fw1 is active for C1 and standby for C2
fw2 is active for C2 and standby for C1
note fw1 & fw2 cannot both be active for the same context.
So in an active/standby mode with only one context you cannot do load-balancing because only one of the firewalls can be active per context.
Jon
04-20-2010 09:18 AM
suthomas1 wrote:
I am trying to understand why ASA firewall doesnt do loadbalancing or loadsharing in normal active-standby mode.
why does it need to be in context mode to be run as an active-active firewall.
Appreciate all your help!
It's important to understand that within each context one firewall is active and one firewall is standby. So if you had 2 contexts - C1 and C2
fw1 is active for C1 and standby for C2
fw2 is active for C2 and standby for C1
note fw1 & fw2 cannot both be active for the same context.
So in an active/standby mode with only one context you cannot do load-balancing because only one of the firewalls can be active per context.
Jon
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