03-11-2013 11:30 AM
Greetings,
Will PA device interfaces fail open if the device has a power failure, similar to IDS/IPS sensors which have relay in the interfac?
thx,
Bill
03-11-2013 11:33 AM
Hi Bill,
No, there are no hardware relays on the firewalls. This is purposefully designed to allow for any configuration of interfaces. A pair of interfaces with a hardware relay would necessarily tie those to interfaces together and only allow a transparent (virtual wire) configuration to be functional during a power outage. As is, the firewalls can have any two interfaces in virtual wire mode, or any other combination of L2, L3, Tap, etc.
Hope this helps,
Greg
03-11-2013 11:33 AM
Hi Bill,
No, there are no hardware relays on the firewalls. This is purposefully designed to allow for any configuration of interfaces. A pair of interfaces with a hardware relay would necessarily tie those to interfaces together and only allow a transparent (virtual wire) configuration to be functional during a power outage. As is, the firewalls can have any two interfaces in virtual wire mode, or any other combination of L2, L3, Tap, etc.
Hope this helps,
Greg
03-11-2013 11:37 AM
PAN devices cannot support the interfaces physical relay like other IPS & IDS devices during the device powered down as we are a firewall device supporting L3 , L2 modes.
03-11-2013 11:42 AM
Thanks for the quick reply.
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