Exam NSE7_EFW-7.2 Topic 1 Question 24 Discussion
Actual exam question for Fortinet's NSE7_EFW-7.2 exam
Question #: 24
Topic #: 1
Question #: 24
Topic #: 1
An administrator has configured two fortiGate devices for an HA cluster. While testing HA failover, the administrator notices that some of the switches in the network continue to send traffic to the former primary device What can the administrator do to fix this problem?
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Virtual MAC Address and Failover
- The new primary broadcasts Gratuitous ARP packets to notify the network that each virtual MAC is now reachable through a different switch port.
- Some high-end switches might not clear their MAC table correctly after a failover - Solution: Force former primary to shut down all its interfaces for one second when the failover happens (excluding heartbeat and reserved management interfaces):
#Config system ha
set link-failed-signal enable
end
- This simulates a link failure that clears the related entries from MAC table of the switches.
- The new primary broadcasts Gratuitous ARP packets to notify the network that each virtual MAC is now reachable through a different switch port.
- Some high-end switches might not clear their MAC table correctly after a failover - Solution: Force former primary to shut down all its interfaces for one second when the failover happens (excluding heartbeat and reserved management interfaces):
#Config system ha
set link-failed-signal enable
end
- This simulates a link failure that clears the related entries from MAC table of the switches.
by Elvira at Jan 15, 2024, 12:53 PM
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