Tossing in my limited .02 cents here stricly for knowledge purposes also. The PIX does do link failure detection by default when failover is installed. The PIX will not do a "selective" failover (us the primary's outside interface & the secondary's...
Please see the following link, it discusses everything concerning PIX failover.http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/iaabu/pix/pix_61/config/failover.htm
I didn't see a static in place for the 209.190.227.253 address. Is that your exchange server or your Mail Essentials Server? In any case, what I think you should check is the following:1) Static & ACL in place for Mail Essentials (ME) server. Ensu...
I have seen issues in the past wherein the PIX has had major issues when trying to handle classless IP's. Your internal IP addresses have the 3rd octet as 0, thus classless. Unfortunately I've never found a work around (other then re-ip'ing so the ...