Hi All

 

Kindly find below the testing scenario for control link failover:

 

1.       The two FW’s were OK and reachable through OoB (tested from IP in the 
same subnet of management subnet).

2.       Configured the system backup router command “backup-router 
11.11.11.254 destination 11.11.11.0/24;”.

3.       Removing the control link between the two firewalls.

4.       Got the failure message and the secondary firwall is still reachable 
through OoB. Checking the ARP entry:

{disabled:node1}

Juniper123@FW2> show arp expiration-time    

MAC Address       Address         Name                      Interface           
Flags    TTE

5c:26:0a:2b:6e:a2 11.11.11.254    11.11.11.254              fxp0.0              
none  1062  n à My IP in the same LAN of the SRX.

28:c0:da:8f:8e:30 30.17.0.2       30.17.0.2                 fab0.0              
permanent

28:c0:da:8f:97:30 30.18.0.1       30.18.0.1                 fab1.0              
permanent

00:22:83:14:0b:f0 172.16.0.1      172.16.0.1                reth0.0             
none  273

00:22:83:14:0b:f1 192.168.0.1     192.168.0.1               reth1.0             
none  613

 

5.       Got the following message:

FW2 FW2 PFEMAN: Shutting down , Master routing engine did not recover; 
forwarding stopped  

 

Message from syslogd@FW2 at Mar 26 23:04:01  ...

FW2 FW2 CMLC: Master RE did not recover, forwarding stopped 

 

Message from syslogd@FW2 at Mar 26 23:04:01  ...

FW2 FW2 CMLC: committing suicide , Shutting down due to loss of 
communicationwith master RE

 

6.       After ARP timer expired, the source IP (My IP) entry disappeared and I 
couldn’t reach the router except by using console and making reboot. 

{disabled:node1}

Juniper123@FW2> show arp expiration-time 

MAC Address       Address         Name                      Interface           
Flags    TTE

28:c0:da:8f:8e:30 30.17.0.2       30.17.0.2                 fab0.0              
permanent

28:c0:da:8f:97:30 30.18.0.1       30.18.0.1                 fab1.0              
permanent

00:22:83:14:0b:f0 172.16.0.1      172.16.0.1                reth0.0             
none    1

00:22:83:14:0b:f1 192.168.0.1     192.168.0.1               reth1.0             
none  149

Total entries: 4

 

Conclusion: When removing the clustering control link, I can’t reach the 
secondary firewall even from directly connected IP to the management subnet 
even the ARP entry is not created for my IP, I have to console the box and 
reboot. This was done with system backup router command.

 

Any suggestions?

 

BR,

 

From: Pavel Lunin [mailto:plu...@senetsy.ru] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:05 PM
To: Chen Jiang
Cc: Walaa Abdel razzak; Michael Lee; juniper-nsp
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] SRX650 Failover Test Issue

 

 

2011/3/23 Chen Jiang <iloveb...@gmail.com>

It's a by design behavior. When control link or fabric link disconnected, the 
current  RG0 master node will remain in master status but the current RG0 
backup node will disable itself to avoid split-brain issue, "Disable" means the 
node will offline all SPC/NPC and Line Card. And only reboot the whole chassis 
could recovery the node.

 


Right but the question is slightly different: whether it's possible to reboot 
it not having access to its console.

I don't have a lab ready for testing right now but AFAIR fxp0 is still active 
for a disabled node even on branch (all the more so for high-end, since it's 
directly on RE there). Moreover "request routing-engine login node X" should 
also be available.

By now I don't really remember the details but there is absolutely no doubt, 
it's possible to access a disable node throughout the network, not only on 
console. About half a year ago we've run into an bug in 10.0R2 causing losses 
of heartbeats on control link and consequent regular failovers and node 
disabling. No doubt it was possible to reboot the disabled node without having 
access to console.

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