Redundant Interface
Software Version 8.0 introduces the adequacy to actualize bombastic interface pairs that accumulation assorted physical
interfaces into a analytic accumulation to accommodate an active/standby environment. Back the alive interface fails, the
standby interface becomes alive and starts casual traffic. This affection offers added believability and ensures
traffic will canyon back there is a botheration with a concrete interface. Note that this affection is abstracted from devicelevel
failover. Bombastic interfaces can be configured forth with approved failover configuration. The Security
Appliance supports up to eight bombastic interface pairs.
Perform the afterward accomplish to configure a bombastic interface on the Security Appliance.
Step 1. Enable the analytic bombastic interface by application the afterward commands from the global
configuration mode. The cardinal altercation is an accumulation amount amid 1 and 8.
firewall(config)# interface bombastic number
Step 2. Add the aboriginal affiliate interface to the bombastic interface analytic group.
firewall(config-if)# member-interface 1st_physical_interface
Step 3. Add the additional affiliate interface to the bombastic interface analytic group.
firewall(config-if)# member-interface 2nd_physical_interface
Use the appearance interface redundantnumber detail command to appearance the bombastic interface settings and also
to actuate which interface is currently active. By default, the aboriginal affiliate interface in the agreement is
active. However, this can be afflicted by application the redundant-interface redundantnumber active-member
physical_interface command.