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Failover Question?

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Jan 1, 2001
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I found this phrase on Cisco website :

"The other unit can have a Failover Only (FO) or another UR license. Units with a Restricted license cannot be used for failover, and two units with FO licenses cannot be used together as a failover pair.

The PIX Firewall with the FO license is intended to be used solely for failover and not in standalone mode. If a failover unit is used in standalone mode, the unit will reboot at least once every 24 hours until the unit is returned to failover duty. When the unit reboots, the following message displays on the console:

=========================NOTICE=========================
This machine is running in secondary mode without
a connection to an active primary PIX. Please
check your connection to the primary system.


REBOOTING....
========================================================"

My question is : what will happen when the failover occurs & after that the power goes down the the UR unit, will the failover unit still work or it will do rebooting ?
 
I believe that if the failover cable is connected to both units then the secondary will work and it will not reboot.
 
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