[hamzah_jordan]

Dear all,
Good morning/evening,

I have catalyst switch 6509, with two firewall service modules(FWSM)
Do I need to configure any command on the switch to make the second
Firewall module to work as failover for the first firewall module.

Thanks for your kind responses.

[raj2160]

Use the failover command to configure

You'll know it's right when you do a show failover and you see primary and secondary interfaces as normal and active / standby. You can do active / active in multiple context mode.

Curious as to why you're using 2 modules in 1 6509, especially for failover.


Failover
Failover lan unit primary/secondary
Failover lan interface failover interface
Failover key *****
Failover interface ip failover <ip> <subnet> standby <ip>


E.g.
FWSM(config)# show failover
Failover On
Failover unit Primary
Failover LAN Interface fover Vlan 150
Unit Poll frequency 15 seconds
Interface Poll frequency 15 seconds
Interface Policy 50%
Monitored Interfaces 249 of 250 maximum
Last Failover at: 10:58:08 Apr 15 2004
This host: Primary - Active
Active time: 2232 (sec)
Admin Interface inside (10.6.8.91): Normal
Admin Interface outside (70.1.1.2): Normal
Other host: Secondary - Standby
Active time: 0 (sec)
Admin Interface inside (10.6.8.100): Normal
Admin Interface outside (70.1.1.3): Normal