[c-nsp] ASA 5510 Configuration Replication Failure

[Jeff Wojciechowski]

Dearest List:

We are building a new active/standby ASA cluster with 5510's and the initial config synch went just fine.

However, when we changed the hostname on the primary unit and did a 'write standby' I got the following:

VaultASA(config)# wr stan
Building configuration...
[OK]
VaultASA(config)# Beginning configuration replication: Sending to mate.
Failover LAN Failed
Configuration Replication Failure
sh ver

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Version 8.0(3)
Device Manager Version 6.1(5)

Another interesting point about this is that both units show the synch interface (E0/3 on both units in our case) show line protocol down.

VaultASA(config)# sh int e0/3
Interface Ethernet0/3 "failover", is down, line protocol is down
  Hardware is i82546GB rev03, BW 100 Mbps, DLY 100 usec
        Full-Duplex, 100 Mbps
        Description: LAN/STATE Failover Interface
        MAC address 0024.14d3.7b37, MTU 1500
        IP address x.x.x.x, subnet mask 255.255.255.0
        558 packets input, 49468 bytes, 0 no buffer
        Received 3 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants
        0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
        0 L2 decode drops
        499 packets output, 71296 bytes, 0 underruns
        0 output errors, 0 collisions, 9 interface resets
        0 babbles, 0 late collisions, 0 deferred
        0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier
        input queue (curr/max packets): hardware (0/25) software (0/0)
        output queue (curr/max packets): hardware (0/0) software (0/0)
  Traffic Statistics for "failover":
        558 packets input, 39264 bytes
        502 packets output, 59800 bytes
        0 packets dropped
      1 minute input rate 0 pkts/sec,  0 bytes/sec
      1 minute output rate 0 pkts/sec,  0 bytes/sec
      1 minute drop rate, 0 pkts/sec
      5 minute input rate 0 pkts/sec,  0 bytes/sec
      5 minute output rate 0 pkts/sec,  0 bytes/sec
      5 minute drop rate, 0 pkts/sec
VaultASA(config)#

Ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Jeff