What i meant was that Cisco has a policy that the secondary PIX can be bought at a lower price, but cannot act on its own as a primary. We cannot tell which of the two that came is the secondary. -----Original Message----- From: Volker Tanger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 4:03 PM To: Gerakaris, Kostas Cc: 'Firewalls List' Subject: Re: Greetings! "Gerakaris, Kostas" schrieb: > We just purchased in our company two new PIX firewalls 525 in failover > state. > How can we understand which one is the primary and which the secondary? > The secondary is not supposed to be able to operate on its own. It is - else it would not be able to do all the work if the primary fails. Basically both will be configured (nearly) identically. I personally do not know the PIX, but I guess you meant that the administration will be done on the primary machine and then replicated automagically to the secondary. Bye Volker -- Volker Tanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrangelstr. 100, 10997 Berlin, Germany DiSCON GmbH - Internet Solutions http://www.discon.de/ - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
