[FW1] Stonebeat HA problem

["Pedro Fernandes" <pedro.fernandes@FW1-NOSPAMlis2.siemens.pt>]

Hello,

I'm installing the Stonebeat HA version 3.1 and I have the following
configuration:

Hardware:
2 Sun Servers 220R with 1 Quad cards. I use qfe0 - qfe2 to connect to our
network segments through the switches and use a cross over UTP cable to
connect the hme0 network cards together. I also use serial link between the
two Firewalls or heartbeat. The external interfaces qfe0 and qfe2 have the
same MAC address on both nodes.

Software:
Solaris 2.6
CheckPoint FW-1 V4.1
StoneBeat V3.1

Problem:

I can reboot/shutdown the PRIMARY and the network is still OK because the
SECONDARY automatically changes it's status from OFFLINE to ONLINE. All I
need to do then is to manually switch the PRIMARY back from OFFLINE to
ONLINE after the reboot. The problem is that when the primary comes back
ONLINE I lose connectivity on the external interfaces and I only can get it
back by starting a snoop command on that interface (at least was the only
way I found out). The same happens if I reboot the SECONDARY and switch to
ONLINE after the reboot. Then the external interfaces are unreachable until
I start a snoop.

Have anybody saw something like this? Does it make any sense, to get back
the connectivity after starting a snoop?

Regards,

Pedro Fernandes


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