topic Many ping drops during failover in Next-Generation Firewall Discussions https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/next-generation-firewall/many-ping-drops-during-failover/m-p/1223631#M5677 <P>&nbsp;</P><P>We have a setup as shown above and when we do a failover testing (power off the active firewall), we see atleast 15 ping drops when we ping devices from one vlan to another, The vlans are configured as sub-interfaces on the firewall. Switches are just L2</P><P>We have configured HA1 and HA1 backup configured</P><P>Is it mandatory to configure HA2 to failover seamlessly with just one ping drop</P><P>Please advise</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ciscojuniperf5_0-1741821290980.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66617i71ACD1C4906EB21F/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="ciscojuniperf5_0-1741821290980.png" alt="ciscojuniperf5_0-1741821290980.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:14:58 GMT ciscojuniperf5 2025-03-12T23:14:58Z Many ping drops during failover https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/next-generation-firewall/many-ping-drops-during-failover/m-p/1223631#M5677 <P>&nbsp;</P><P>We have a setup as shown above and when we do a failover testing (power off the active firewall), we see atleast 15 ping drops when we ping devices from one vlan to another, The vlans are configured as sub-interfaces on the firewall. Switches are just L2</P><P>We have configured HA1 and HA1 backup configured</P><P>Is it mandatory to configure HA2 to failover seamlessly with just one ping drop</P><P>Please advise</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ciscojuniperf5_0-1741821290980.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/66617i71ACD1C4906EB21F/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="ciscojuniperf5_0-1741821290980.png" alt="ciscojuniperf5_0-1741821290980.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:14:58 GMT https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/next-generation-firewall/many-ping-drops-during-failover/m-p/1223631#M5677 ciscojuniperf5 2025-03-12T23:14:58Z