[c-nsp] FWSM failover transparent mode

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Holemans Wim wrote:

> Just upgraded our FWSM to version 3.1.11 after 3 random crashes in a
> month. Now we are thinking about buying a second FWSM to do failover in
> order to limit downtime and facilitate upgrades : most of our servers
> are connected to the 6513 carrying this FWSM.
>
> In the release notes of 3.1.11 I however read under Open Caveats
>
> "CSCm73157 : Failover is not working in transparent mode..."
>
> Anyone has experience with FWSM failover in transparent mode ? Does this
> really doesn't work ?
>
> Does it work under 3.2 or 4.0 ?

FWSM failover in transparent mode does work in 3.2.  Specifically, 3.2(4) 
and above.  Right now we're running 3.2(6) and 3.2(7) in production.  I 
want to give the 4.x code more time to 'bake' before I put it in 
production here.  I may try it out in our development lab soon.

jms