Tom, Performing a cpstop or cphastop on the cluster member that you want to bring down would do the trick.
Jason On 2/12/06, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tom, > > > > You'd want to make sure that the primary firewall knows that there is an > > issue with connectivity. If you do not lose the link to the upstream > > router, but only routes outbound, the cluster may not fail over. In > this > > case, you might want to manually fail over before the outage and verify > that > > everything works as expected. > > > > I would assume that since both routers are provided by the ISP that IP > > addresses do not change. If they do, you'd want to make sure that your > VPNs > > are configured to handle this event as well. > > > thanks for getting back to me - Yes both routers are provided by the same > ISP and so IP range does not change during a failover. Its exactly the > scenerio where our primary doen not notice the failed router that i'm > worried about. When you say manually fail over what is generally the best > way to do that? I presume a fw stop on the primary would cause the secondary > to kick in? > > thanks > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, > send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================= > ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
