Hi there
I believe that the markings on the failover cable let you determine which is
which.
In other words, the PIX connected to the end of the cable marked secondary ,
is the secondary firewall.
Regards
Michael
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From: "Gerakaris, Kostas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Volker Tanger'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:07 PM
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> What i meant was that Cisco has a policy that the secondary PIX can be
> bought
> at a lower price, but cannot act on its own as a primary.
> We cannot tell which of the two that came is the secondary.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Volker Tanger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 4:03 PM
> To: Gerakaris, Kostas
> Cc: 'Firewalls List'
> Subject: Re:
>
>
> Greetings!
>
> "Gerakaris, Kostas" schrieb:
>
> > We just purchased in our company two new PIX firewalls 525 in failover
> > state.
> > How can we understand which one is the primary and which the secondary?
> > The secondary is not supposed to be able to operate on its own.
>
> It is - else it would not be able to do all the work if the primary fails.
> Basically both will be configured (nearly) identically. I personally do
not
> know the PIX, but I guess you meant that the administration will be done
on
> the primary machine and then replicated automagically to the secondary.
>
> Bye
> Volker
>
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