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Passing Cisco heartbeat traffic through the passive device's data plane

mcragg — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:04:47 GMT

In a HA configuration is it correct to assume that the dataplane won't pass traffic? Network has a need to pass a heartbeat of sorts through the passive firewall for network path health. Is it still possible to pass this traffic through ingress/egress interfaces for path verification?

Re: Passing Cisco heartbeat traffic through the passive device's data plane

reaper — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:12:15 GMT

hi @mcragg

That's a correct assumption: A passive HA peer does not pass or process traffic

If packets need to pass through that physical device, the only solution would be to switch to an Active/Active setup (or review the need for these packets to go through the node rather than through the cluster as an entity)

Re: Passing Cisco heartbeat traffic through the passive device's data plane

mcragg — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:15:06 GMT

Thank you much.