Gents, I will describe the way I understand this as I think there is still something missing.
Failover mac-address is used to assign static MAC addresses to the failover pair of devices. This is useful when both devices boot up and the Secondary device will start first. As the active MAC address by default is derived from Primary device, there can be a problem if the Secondary device boots first. Then the Secondary device will use its own burned-in MAC address. The "failover mac-address" is valid for Active/Standby failover only. For Active/Active there is "mac address" command under the failover group. "mac-address auto" command is used to automatically generate all MAC addresses inside the security contexts. This is important if two contexts share the same physical/logical interface. We use it in multi context mode only. Note that there is no need for that command when A/A failover is configured. The traffic classifier is used to direct the traffic to the correct context. It uses the following logic: - different physical interfaces - MAC addresses on the interfaces - Global IP due to NAT/PAT. HTH, Piotr Matusiak 2010/9/18 Vybhav Ramachandran <[email protected]> > Great! :) > > Thanks for the help Kings, Peiter! > > Cheers, > TacACK > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > >
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