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Chapter 14 Configuring Failover
Understanding Failover
Determining Which Type of Failover to Use
The type of failover you choose depends upon your FWSM configuration and how you plan to use
FWSM.
If you are running FWSM in single mode, then you can only use Active/Standby failover; Active/Active
failover is only available to FWSMs running in multiple context mode. If you are running the FWSM in
multiple context mode, then you can configure either Active/Active failover or Active/Standby failover.
If you are using an upstream router to provide load balancing, use Active/Active failover. If you do not
want to provide load balancing, use either Active/Standby or Active/Active failover.
Table 14-3
provides a comparison of some of the features supported by each type of failover
configuration.
Regular and Stateful Failover
FWSM supports two types of failover, regular and stateful. This section includes the following topics:
•
Regular Failover, page 14-18
•
Stateful Failover, page 14-18
State link failed
No failover No action
No action
State information will become out
of date, and sessions will be
terminated if a failover occurs.
Failover link failed during operation
No failover n/a
n/a
Each unit marks the failover
interface as failed. You should
restore the failover link as soon as
possible because the unit cannot fail
over to the standby unit while the
failover link is down.
Table 14-2
Failover Behavior for Active/Active Failover (continued)
Failure Event
Policy
Active Group
Action
Standby Group
Action
Notes
Table 14-3
Failover Configuration Feature Support
Feature
Active/Active
Active/Standby
Single Context Mode
No
Yes
Multiple Context Mode
Yes
Yes
Load Balancing Network Configurations
Yes
No
Unit Failover
Yes
Yes
Failover of Groups of Contexts
Yes
No
Failover of Individual Contexts
No
No
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