Take a look at
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/110/failover.html
Also, LocalDirector uses the same failover code, and there's another doc
written for it on CCO. Search on LD and failover and you'll find it
eventually.
The pix does send 'hello' packets across interfaces on the same network,
so it will respond to network outages, as well as stuff it monitors
internally.
Michael
Daniel Crichton wrote:
>
> On 8 Apr 2001, at 17:13, Jeroen Geusebroek wrote:
>
> > My question is, if the first Pix is connected to the first switch and the
> > second pix to the second switch; If the first switch fails, will the second Pix
> > become active? From what i understand of the documentation it will, but am not
> > to sure.
> >
> > Can someone shed some light on this?
>
> AFAIK the second Pix will only become active if the first Pix fails, but a
> switch failure will not cause this as the failure is detected by the cable that
> connects the Pix boxes together, not by the network cable. I know that 5.3
> (?) uses a NIC on each box for stateful failover but I believe that the actual
> failover handling is still done based on the dedicated failover cable
> connection.
>
> Dan
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