ASA 5510 active standby failover config

[eiregobragh]

Guys,
was on site today trying to set up failover between two ASA 5510s. Using ASDM.

I configured up the int e0/0 on both devices with IP addresses.

On the active Device I went into the failover config area,
selected my failover interface and put in the IP address of the previously configured int e0/0.

Then I was asked to enter the IP address of the peer device, I assume this is the IP address of int e0/0 on the other device.

It said it could not conntact the peer device on that IP address.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Paul Kilcoyne B. Eng.
Innealtóir/ Engineer

http://www.pknetworks.ie

 

[North323]

you should have some cable between each device. this is sometimes a special cisco cable that sends out a heart beat to make sure the peer is still there

 

[eiregobragh]

Hi,
I got it sorted using a straight through cable between the two devices (I know it should be a cross over but cisco says a straight will do) and I configured the failover on the ASAs as follows;


Active ASA config:


interface e0/2

nameif outside

security?level 0

ip address 84.x.xxx.9 255.255.255.0 standby 84.x.xxx.14

interface e0/1

nameif inside

security?level 100

ip address 192.168.2.200 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.2.199

interface e0/0

description LAN Failover Interface

failover

failover lan unit primary

failover lan interface failover e0/0

failover key abcd1234

failover replication http

failover interface ip failover 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 standby 10.1.1.2
Standby ASA config


interface e0/0

description LAN Failover Interface

failover

failover lan unit secondary

failover lan interface failover Ethernet0/0

failover key abcd1234

failover replication http

failover interface ip failover 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 standby 10.1.1.2


So it worked

Thanks for the help.

Case closed


Paul Kilcoyne B. Eng.
Innealtóir/ Engineer

http://www.pknetworks.ie

 

[North323]

stars! stars! stars!