Question about EX - SRX redundancy

Anurag Bhatia me at anuragbhatia.com
Sun Jun 14 20:37:53 UTC 2015


Hi Rob


I couldn't get the ports working on SRX with low priority on the cluster.
They always showed as down by protocol and never picked traffic. Can you
put some light on the reason for that?



Thanks

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Rob Greenwood <bilco105 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >   3. In case of SRX only one device runs at a time and ports of other SRX
> >   (slave) do not access traffic at all as long as it see the master is
> up via
> >   heartbeat.
> Not entirely accurate. The control plane (routing engine) is only active
> on one SRX at a time, however, the data plane is active on both. This means
> in your configuration, both ae1 and ae2 on the EX will be passing traffic
> to both SRXs.
>
> It’s also worth noting you can create multiple redundancy groups and split
> them between both SRXs. If a device fails, all redundancy groups on the
> failed device will be migrated to the remaining one.
>
> -Rob
>



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