Thursday, December 5, 2013

ASA failover using a port-channel

For the cisco ASA,  you can achieve a better  redundant failover link configuration  in a  single or multi context mode by using a port-channel.

By aggregating 2 links together, you  provide redundancy and  helps ensure the  failover link is always up and not disturb

In this post, we will look at the basic configuration;

1: Here's the ports that was used on a ASA5558
Notice we are using LACP active mode.


2: The ASA will create the virtual port-channel automatically so you have nothing todo here ;


3rd: We create the  failover cfg for both the primary and secondary units;



note: the secondary unit has the same above cfg but with the wording "failover lan unit secondary"


Finally we validate the cfg and port-channel status and lacp





And the failover state;

Ken Felix
Freelance Network / Security Engineer
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