LAN-Based Failover

LAN-Based Failover

PIX software adaptation 6.2 alien abutment for LAN-based failover. In LANbased

failover, instead of the consecutive failover cable, an Ethernet articulation is acclimated to

monitor the failover cachet and barter failover-related information.The biggest

advantage of application LAN-based failover is that it gets about the ambit limitation

of application the consecutive failover cable, which is alone 6 anxiety long.The Ethernet link

used to adviser failover cachet in LAN-based failover charge be a committed LAN

interface. However, if you are application stateful failover, bold you accept the

capacity, the aforementioned interface can be acclimated to barter accompaniment information. A dedicated

hub or about-face or a committed VLAN on a about-face can be acclimated to connect

the two PIX firewalls for LAN-based failover. However, a crossover Ethernet

cable cannot be used.

NOTE

One disadvantage of application LAN-based failover is that accident of ability on

the added firewall is not detected. Therefore, clashing accepted failover

using the consecutive cable, a power-loss abortion is not detected until the NIC

tests fail.