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E. M. Recio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The secondary noticed the lack of advertisements from the primary,
> > but the primary did not relinquish its priority because it saw no
> > problem.
> 
> The cause is correct, and it seems to make sense to me, however since
> it's all on one VRID, shouldn't all interfaces have switched over?

The secondary is unfortunately not in control of the situation.  It saw
an opportunity to assume a master role on one interface, but the primary
continues to assert a master role on the other interfaces.  What should
the secondary do?  Raise its priority above the primary's?  How can the
secondary be sure that this is the right thing to do?  After all, the
primary fails to relinquish the master role, because it believes that
nothing is wrong.  Perhaps the secondary would be similarly mistaken if
it were to attempt to assert mastership.  The two devices really do not
have enough information to determine with certainty what the correct
action should be.

> Also, I was talking to the Nokia Tech Support, and they mentioned
> something about a Sync connection, he swore up and down that he was
> talking about a VRRP sync connection, not FW-1's state table sync.

He is probably thinking of Nokia's Cluster Sync connection which has
nothing to do with VRRP.

> > VRRP does not solve every problem, is the lesson here.
> 
> I don't think my boss is going to like that answer.  :(

VRRP was simply not designed to detect the type of failure you
experienced.  And in fact, I'm not sure that any HA protocol could have
done any better in that situation.

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