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aeryilmaz — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:26:28 GMT

Hi all,

I have an Interface that is up/up but "show fail" reports "no link"

Any ideas on what the cause may be?

I am seeing input errors on the switch port this interface is connected to. Tried swapping the cable, but no change. I may have a hardware problem but curious if anyone has specific insight as to why I would see "no link" from "show fail"

PIX515E-01/pri/act# sh fail

Failover On

Cable status: Normal

Failover unit Primary

Failover LAN Interface: N/A - Serial-based failover enabled

Unit Poll frequency 15 seconds, holdtime 45 seconds

Interface Poll frequency 5 seconds, holdtime 25 seconds

Interface Policy 1

Monitored Interfaces 3 of 250 maximum

Version: Ours 7.2(3), Mate 7.2(3)

Last Failover at: 00:24:54 EDT Jul 6 2012

This host: Primary - Active

Active time: 32270310 (sec)

Interface outside (xxxxxxxx): Normal

Interface core (xxxxxxxxx): Normal

Interface testing (172.20.81.30): No Link (Not-Monitored)

Other host: Secondary - Standby Ready

Active time: 0 (sec)

Interface outside (xxxxxxxxx): Normal

Interface core (xxxxxxxxxxxxx): Normal

Interface testing (0.0.0.0): No Link (Not-Monitored)

PIX515E-01/pri/act# sh int eth3

Interface Ethernet3 "testing", is up, line protocol is up

Hardware is i82559, BW 100 Mbps

Auto-Duplex(Full-duplex), Auto-Speed(100 Mbps)

MAC address 000d.8810.1585, MTU 1500

IP address 172.20.81.30, subnet mask 255.255.255.0

0 packets input, 0 bytes, 0 no buffer

Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants

0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort

0 L2 decode drops

91 packets output, 6074 bytes, 0 underruns

0 output errors, 0 collisions, 0 interface resets

0 babbles, 0 late collisions, 0 deferred

0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier

input queue (curr/max packets): hardware (0/0) software (0/0)

output queue (curr/max packets): hardware (0/1) software (0/1)

Traffic Statistics for "testing":

0 packets input, 0 bytes

79 packets output, 2572 bytes

0 packets dropped

1 minute input rate 0 pkts/sec, 0 bytes/sec

1 minute output rate 0 pkts/sec, 0 bytes/sec

1 minute drop rate, 0 pkts/sec

5 minute input rate 0 pkts/sec, 0 bytes/sec

5 minute output rate 0 pkts/sec, 0 bytes/sec

5 minute drop rate, 0 pkts/sec

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patoberli — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:30:02 GMT

Could it be that you don't have a standby IP address configured?

How does the sh int eth3 looks on the standby firewall?

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aeryilmaz — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:33:25 GMT

That has not been a problem in the past.

I have ran active/standby pairs where just 1 side had an IP.

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Julio Carvajal — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:40:16 GMT

Hello,

This would happen when there is a problem with connectivity between the boxes, in this case the timeout threshold for the hello packets expired ( it could because of the directly connected switch interface going down or even it's own interface)

It is expected that failover gets triggered here.

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