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300-710 · Question #249

An organization is configuring a new Cisco Firepower High Availability deployment. Which action must be taken to ensure that failover is as seamless as possible to end users?

The correct answer is A. Set up a virtual failover MAC address between chassis. Configuring virtual MAC addresses on an FTD HA pair is beneficial to the availability of a network. Virtual MAC addresses allow the primary and secondary FTD to maintain consistent MAC addresses which prevents certain traffic disruptions…

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Question

An organization is configuring a new Cisco Firepower High Availability deployment. Which action must be taken to ensure that failover is as seamless as possible to end users?

Options

  • ASet up a virtual failover MAC address between chassis.
  • BUse a dedicated stateful link between chassis.
  • CLoad the same software version on both chassis.
  • DSet the same FQDN for both chassis.

How the community answered

(59 responses)
  • A
    86% (51)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    3% (2)
  • D
    8% (5)

Explanation

Configuring virtual MAC addresses on an FTD HA pair is beneficial to the availability of a network. Virtual MAC addresses allow the primary and secondary FTD to maintain consistent MAC addresses which prevents certain traffic disruptions. virtual/222235-configure-virtual-mac-addresses-for-ftd.html

Topics

#Firepower HA#High Availability#Failover#Virtual MAC

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