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.
