Hello all,
I have a situation with 2 ACE 4710 appliances and fault tolerance. The 2 devices can see each other, and have sync'd configs. The issue is when I physically disconnect the active ACE from the switch, the redundant ACE become active (as expected), however the disconnected ACE also reports it's state as active.
I am not sure if this is normal, as the disconnected ACE has no way of knowing the state/priority value of the redundant ACE. It does however decrease it's priority value as configured.
The real problem comes when I reconnect the ACE - I have a situation where both ACE's are active, and clients can't fetch content from the serverfarm for 30-60secs. I presume this is because of possible VMAC conflicts in the switches MAC address table or similar?
I have tried using both query-interface and the tracking interface options with the same results, also note I have preemption enabled, and am using different shared VLAN id's on the ACES. The ft config is below;
ACE1
ft interface vlan 200
ip address 192.168.254.9 255.255.255.0
peer ip address 192.168.254.10 255.255.255.0
no shutdown
ft peer 1
heartbeat interval 300
heartbeat count 10
ft-interface vlan 200
ft group 1
peer 1
priority 70
peer priority 50
associate-context Admin
inservice
ft track interface FT_TRACK_vlan31
track-interface vlan 31
peer track-interface vlan 31
priority 30
peer priority 30
ft group 2
peer 1
priority 70
peer priority 50
associate-context VC_DMZ1Exchange2010
inservice
ACE2
ft interface vlan 200
ip address 192.168.254.10 255.255.255.0
peer ip address 192.168.254.9 255.255.255.0
no shutdown
ft peer 1
heartbeat interval 300
heartbeat count 10
ft-interface vlan 200
ft group 1
peer 1
priority 50
peer priority 70
associate-context Admin
inservice
ft track interface FT_TRACK_vlan31
track-interface vlan 31
peer track-interface vlan 31
priority 30
peer priority 30
ft group 2
peer 1
priority 50
peer priority 70
associate-context VC_DMZ1Exchange2010
inservice
This is the state of the ft groups on the disconnected ACE (whilst disconnected)
FT Group : 1
Status : in-service
Maintenance mode : MAINT_MODE_OFF
My State : FSM_FT_STATE_ACTIVE
My Config Priority : 70
My Net Priority : 40
My Preempt : Enabled
Context Name : Admin
Context Id : 0
Track Name : FT_TRACK_vlan31
Track type : TRACK_INTF
Vlan Id : 31
State : TRACK_DOWN
Priority : 30
Transitions : 8
FT Group : 2
Status : in-service
Maintenance mode : MAINT_MODE_OFF
My State : FSM_FT_STATE_ACTIVE
My Config Priority : 70
My Net Priority : 40
My Preempt : Enabled
Context Name : VC_DMZ1Exchange2010
Context Id : 1
Track Name : FT_TRACK_vlan31
Track type : TRACK_INTF
Vlan Id : 31
State : TRACK_DOWN
Priority : 30
Transitions : 4
Please let me know if you need any more details, and thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers,
Jeremy
