Hi.
My customer has 2 PIX 515e boxes. He has not configured any failover ip addresses. In the output of show failover, all the interfaces are in waiting state. BUT the failover is still working. It is weird because the configuration does not have any failvoer ip's configured.
Failover On
Cable status: Normal
Reconnect timeout 0:00:00
Poll frequency 15 seconds
Last Failover at: 23:15:21 IST Sat Jun 2 2007
This host: Primary - Active
Active time: 145650 (sec)
Interface outside (x.x.x.x): Normal (Waiting)
Interface inside (x.x.x.x)(Waiting)
Interface intf2 (x.x.x.x) Link Down (Shutdown)
Interface intf3 (x.x.x.x): Normal (Waiting)
Interface intf4 (127.0.0.1): Link Down (Shutdown)
Interface intf5 (127.0.0.1): Link Down (Shutdown)
Other host: Secondary - Standby
Active time: 0 (sec)
Interface outside (0.0.0.0): Normal (Waiting)
Interface inside (0.0.0.0): Normal (Waiting)
Interface intf2 (0.0.0.0): Link Down (Shutdown)
Interface intf3 (0.0.0.0): Normal (Waiting)
Interface intf4 (0.0.0.0): Link Down (Shutdown)
Interface intf5 (0.0.0.0): Link Down (Shutdown)
the configuration is:
failover
failover timeout 0:00:00
failover poll 15
no failover ip address outside
no failover ip address inside
no failover ip address intf2
no failover ip address intf3
no failover ip address intf4
no failover ip address intf5
we tested by switching off the primary pix and to my surprise the standby pix took the IP addresses of the primary and traffic was flowing normally. Please let me know if this is normal.
