01-19-2006 12:18 AM - edited 02-21-2020 12:39 AM
Hi,
First of all, thanks for your time. I have a question implementing active/active failover on a pix with 7.0. I have two pix 535 with 3 ethernets (inside, outside and failover). Until now they were in active/pasive but I would like to put them in active/active. Is there a way of doing this WITHOUT installing any more ethernet cards? Further more, can this be done using just one context? I found this info:
Can I implement it some other way?
Kindest regards,
Fernando
CCIE#144XX CCNP CCDP
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01-19-2006 04:31 AM
Hello
IMHO the "active/active" is just sales talk. What Cisco means when they saids active/active in pix7/ASA is just load balancing if You are running multiple fw contexts.
For each virtual firewall you setup one physical fw as active, and the other as passive. If you have 4 virutal fw:s (contexts), you set Fw A as active for context 1 and 2, and Fw B as active for context 3 and 4. In that way, when a unit fails, the two contexts that are active on that unit will fail over to the other unit.
If You are not running multiple contexts in your firewalls you cannot use active/active failover.
Sorry, it disappointed me too when I realized...
Regards Jimmy
01-19-2006 04:31 AM
Hello
IMHO the "active/active" is just sales talk. What Cisco means when they saids active/active in pix7/ASA is just load balancing if You are running multiple fw contexts.
For each virtual firewall you setup one physical fw as active, and the other as passive. If you have 4 virutal fw:s (contexts), you set Fw A as active for context 1 and 2, and Fw B as active for context 3 and 4. In that way, when a unit fails, the two contexts that are active on that unit will fail over to the other unit.
If You are not running multiple contexts in your firewalls you cannot use active/active failover.
Sorry, it disappointed me too when I realized...
Regards Jimmy
02-15-2006 11:55 PM
Can we do Active/Active with FWSM blade as well? Of course, assuming i run multi-context...
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