Leds in failover firewall with high Availability

[a.cadarso]

Hi, is it normal that in passive unit of high availability the link leds of interfaces are switch off?. the high availability it's ok and synchronized.

I don't find anything about that in documentation.

Thank you

Samuel

[swhyte · Accepted solution]

Hi Samuel,

this is fine. This has to do with the "passive link state" option in your HA configuration. It is probably set to shut down which is normal.

Take a look at the admin guide in reference to "passive link state":

Passive Link State

Choose from the following  options: • auto—Causes the link status to reflect physical  connectivity, but discards all packets received. This option is supported in  Layer 3 mode. The auto option is desirable, if it is feasible for your  network. • shutdown—Forces the interface link to the down state.  This is the default option, which ensures that loops are not created in the  network.