Cpha status / cphaprob stat down problem
Problem Description
1) cphaprob stat shows the partner firewall status is down on BOTH nodes of an HA pair.
Example:
firewall-1[admin]# cphaprob stat
Cluster Mode: Sync only (IPSO cluster)
Number Unique Address Firewall State (*)
1 (local) 10.10.30.2 Active 2 10.10.30.3 Down
2) fw ctl pstat shows zero packets recieved on BOTH nodes
Example:
firewall-2[admin]# fw ctl pstat|grep -C 1 Sync
Sync: Version: new Status: Able to Send/Receive sync packets Sync packets sent: total : 326990, retransmitted : 0, retrans reqs : 0, acks : 0 Sync packets received: total : 0, were queued : 0, dropped by net : 0
3) tcpdumps on the sync interface only show OUTBOUND packets, no INBOUND packets (2nd field O=outbound packet)
23:46:26.358170 O 00:00:00:00:fe:00 (oui XEROX CORPORATION) > 01:00:5e:0a:1e:fa (oui Unknown), ethertype NOK sync (0x7005), length 78: CPHA 0.0.0.0.8116 > 10.10.30.0.8116: ifc 0 smach 0 dmach 65534 op ifc-cfg-resp
23:46:26.358173 O 00:00:00:00:fe:00 (oui XEROX CORPORATION) > 01:00:5e:0a:1e:fa (oui Unknown), ethertype NOK sync (0x7005), length 78: CPHA 0.0.0.0.8116 > 10.10.30.0.8116: ifc 0 smach 0 dmach 65534 op ifc-cfg-resp
23:46:26.459135 O 00:00:00:00:fe:00 (oui XEROX CORPORATION) > 01:00:5e:0a:1e:fa (oui Unknown), ethertype NOK sync (0x7005), length 218: CPHA 0.0.0.0.8116 > 10.10.30.0.8116: ifc 0 smach 0 dmach 65534 op new-sync
4) Sync mode set to multicast
crx-dev1[admin]# cphaprob -a if
eth4c0 sync(secured), broadcast eth2c1 non sync(non secured) eth2c0 non sync(non secured) eth3c0 sync(secured), broadcast eth1c1 non sync(non secured)
Possible Causes:
Switch problem, physical NIC / cabling problem.
Solution:
for this case... the sync mode was changed from multicast to broadcast
firewall-1[admin]# cphaconf set_ccp broadcast
run "cphaprob stat" again and it will show active/active if this fix worked.
