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Firepower Cluster Control Link

dvalinho
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Hello Experts,

 

Could you please tell the advantage of using Spanned Etherchannel over Device local etherchannel?

 

What are the benefits of one over the other?

 

Thanks

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Muhammad Awais Khan
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Hi,

 

In order to achieve true scalability in addition to high availability, then spanned ether channels across multiple FTD's/ASAs should be used instead of device local or individual ether channel.  it creates true active/active scenario where both or multiple firewalls will participate in traffic forwarding and at the same time providing high availability.

 

reference: https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/emea/docs/2016/pdf/BRKSEC-3032.pdf

 

 

Is there any additional documentation around clustering the FTD's?  Not the ASA? 

 

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