topic Re: firewall active-active in Network Security https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/firewall-active-active/m-p/1396490#M702848 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote"><P>suthomas1 wrote:</P><P></P><P>I am trying to understand why ASA firewall doesnt do loadbalancing or loadsharing in normal active-standby mode.</P><P>why does it need to be in context mode to be run as an active-active firewall.</P><P></P><P>Appreciate all your help!</P></PRE><P></P><P>It's important to understand that within each context one firewall is active and one firewall is standby. So if you had 2 contexts - C1 and C2</P><P></P><P>fw1 is active for C1 and standby for C2</P><P>fw2 is active for C2 and standby for C1</P><P></P><P>note fw1 &amp; fw2 cannot both be active for the same context.</P><P></P><P>So in an active/standby mode with only one context you cannot do load-balancing because only one of the firewalls can be active per context.</P><P></P><P>Jon</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:18:43 GMT Jon Marshall 2010-04-20T16:18:43Z firewall active-active https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/firewall-active-active/m-p/1396489#M702847 <P>I am trying to understand why ASA firewall doesnt do loadbalancing or loadsharing in normal active-standby mode.</P><P>why does it need to be in context mode to be run as an active-active firewall.</P><P></P><P>Appreciate all your help!</P> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:35:03 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/firewall-active-active/m-p/1396489#M702847 suthomas1 2019-03-11T17:35:03Z Re: firewall active-active https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/firewall-active-active/m-p/1396490#M702848 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote"><P>suthomas1 wrote:</P><P></P><P>I am trying to understand why ASA firewall doesnt do loadbalancing or loadsharing in normal active-standby mode.</P><P>why does it need to be in context mode to be run as an active-active firewall.</P><P></P><P>Appreciate all your help!</P></PRE><P></P><P>It's important to understand that within each context one firewall is active and one firewall is standby. So if you had 2 contexts - C1 and C2</P><P></P><P>fw1 is active for C1 and standby for C2</P><P>fw2 is active for C2 and standby for C1</P><P></P><P>note fw1 &amp; fw2 cannot both be active for the same context.</P><P></P><P>So in an active/standby mode with only one context you cannot do load-balancing because only one of the firewalls can be active per context.</P><P></P><P>Jon</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:18:43 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/firewall-active-active/m-p/1396490#M702848 Jon Marshall 2010-04-20T16:18:43Z