HP VPN Firewall Appliances High Availability Configuration Guide

Figure 17 Network diagram

Configuration procedure

1. Configure Firewall A:

<FirewallA> system-view

[FirewallA] interface gigabitethernet 0/1

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] ip address 202.38.160.1 255.255.255.0

# Create VRRP group 1 and configure its virtual IP address as 202.38.160.111.

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp vrid 1 virtual-ip 202.38.160.111

# Configure the priority of Firewall A in the VRRP group 1 as 110, which is higher than that of

Firewall B (100), so that Firewall A can become the master.

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp vrid 1 priority 110

# Configure Firewall A to operate in preemptive mode so that it can become the master whenever

it works correctly. Configure the preemption delay as five seconds to avoid frequent status

switchover.

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp vrid 1 preempt-mode timer delay 5

2. Configure Firewall B:

<FirewallB> system-view

[FirewallB] interface gigabitethernet 0/1

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] ip address 202.38.160.2 255.255.255.0

# Create VRRP group 1 and configure its virtual IP address as 202.38.160.111.

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp vrid 1 virtual-ip 202.38.160.111

# Configure Firewall B to operate in preemptive mode, with the preemption delay set to five

seconds.

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp vrid 1 preempt-mode timer delay 5

3. Verify the configuration:

After the configuration, Host B can be pinged successfully on Host A. To verify your configuration,

use the display vrrp verbose command.

# Display the detailed information about VRRP group 1 on Firewall A.

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] display vrrp verbose

IPv4 Standby Information:

Run Mode : Standard