Hey folks, today I would like to write about a topic that brings about resilience and redundancy for any business.
This is specific to firewall redundancy and you would need 2 firewalls with the same firmware and model number for this to work.
I will outline the steps below:
- Connect both firewalls physically with ethernet cables, HA1 port on the main firewall connects to HA1 port on the secondary firewall and the same for HA2.
- Step 2 is to connect a switch and put all isp network terminations into the switch and then from the switch you can connect your wan interfaces.
- Give your firewalls an identity.
- In system,Configure HA status and select Active-Passive and set group name and password.
- Set your device priority, ensure the heartbeat interfaces are selected and both set to 50.
- Configure the second unit's host name and configure HA as per the above method.
- Connect to main firewall and you should see the HA stats as per the below:
Hope this has been informative for you and I thank you for reading.
Regards,
@trev03