Failover query

[Vishal6]

Hi all,

I'm having one pair of Meraki Mx place as perimeter firewall and below one pair of FTD fw directly connected to Mx. Need to know how will be my failover works here as Meraki works as warmspare i.e failover would only happen if there's a connectivity loss with dashboard, while FTD support link, device, path failover.

MX1 single link to FTD1

MX2 single link to FTD2

Just a thought if I do criss cross connectivity between Mx and FTD, would my Active FTD connected to both Mx's forward traffic to Spare Mx also and that traffic would be drop ?

Pls help

[ZaynFow]

With warm-spare MX, if traffic hits the standby in a criss-cross setup, it’ll probably just get dropped since only the active one passes traffic until failover occurs.

[Vishal6]

So it will be disruption in network ? or link from active FTD to spare MX would not processed traffic and all traffic will go via active Ftd to active Mx ?