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fail-open on ips 4255

joshiaroon
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i have a query regardin bypass. Suppose i have a hardware failure or power supply down for IPS , do IPS 4255 bypass the traffic by default or we need to add some extra hardware .

thanks for your input

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Jia Liu
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

For IPS 4255, you can enable bypass mode in the software where the appliance will allow traffic to continue flowing only on software failures where the Analysis Engine has stopped inspecting traffic.  For hardware bypass, you'll need to have a 4260 or 4270.  Please see more information here:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/ips/7.0/installation/guide/hw_installing_4260.html

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