https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-lost-failover-communication/m-p/3949041#M1066807 <P><SPAN>I have 2XASA5585-X firewalls in active/active failover mode, with 30 contexts. But we receive the following error message at irregular interval;</SPAN></P><P><STRONG>Lost Failover communications with mate on interface QUIDEV</STRONG></P><P><SPAN>Failover interfaces are GE0/0 and GE0/1</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Cables are not directly connected between the firewalls, there is a DWDM device in between. We did check the logs from this DWDM platform but there are no events recorded there.</SPAN></P> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:08:09 GMT MohamedSamer47595 2019-10-28T09:08:09Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-lost-failover-communication/m-p/3949041#M1066807 <P><SPAN>I have 2XASA5585-X firewalls in active/active failover mode, with 30 contexts. But we receive the following error message at irregular interval;</SPAN></P><P><STRONG>Lost Failover communications with mate on interface QUIDEV</STRONG></P><P><SPAN>Failover interfaces are GE0/0 and GE0/1</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Cables are not directly connected between the firewalls, there is a DWDM device in between. We did check the logs from this DWDM platform but there are no events recorded there.</SPAN></P> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:08:09 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-lost-failover-communication/m-p/3949041#M1066807 MohamedSamer47595 2019-10-28T09:08:09Z https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-lost-failover-communication/m-p/3949241#M1066808 <P>IP packet loss may not show up as an error on the intermediate DWDM platform.</P> <P>One would have to debug the failover process on the ASA to get a detailed readout of what exactly the HA pair is seeing when the event occurs.</P> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:43:26 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/asa-lost-failover-communication/m-p/3949241#M1066808 Marvin Rhoads 2019-10-28T14:43:26Z