sivakumar escribió:
> I have a pix stateful failover(6.3) set up in active/standby mode. Now i
> just want to shut down an interface on the failover and bring back it to
> unused state. Now i'm worried if by giving a shut on the interface on the
> active pix would affect the standby and would drive them to panic.
>
> As per the document i'm thinking of to disable the failover first and shut
> the interface on pri and then sec and after that would enable back the
> failover again. Would that be fine or it would still affect and make a
> switch over.
>
> My concern is if we disable the failover the 2 pixes would poll using the
> other ethernet interfaces to check they are up. And if i shut down an int,
> would that make the pix to failover and standby to active?
> [B]
> Could you please tell me a safe way so that i could rid of it without
> affecting any live traffic?[/B]
>
> -----
> Regards,
> Siva
>
Just shut down the interface in the active unit, that won't trigger the
failover algorithm, and the configuration will be propagated to the
secondary/standby unit. As there's no live traffic going on by that
interface no live traffic should be affected.
Greetings,
Nico
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