HP VPN Firewall Appliances High Availability Configuration Guide

# Configure the priority of Firewall A in 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 ipv6 vrid 1 priority 110

# Set the authentication mode of VRRP group 1 as simple and authentication key to hello.

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp ipv6 vrid 1 authentication-mode simple hello

# Set the interval on Firewall A for sending VRRP advertisements to 400 centiseconds.

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp ipv6 vrid 1 timer advertise 400

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

it works correctly. Set the preemption delay to five seconds to avoid frequent status switchover.

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp ipv6 vrid 1 preempt-mode timer delay 5

# Set GigabitEthernet 0/2 on Firewall A to be tracked, and configure the amount by which the

priority value decreases to be more than 10 (30 in this example), so that when GigabitEthernet

0/2 fails, the priority of Firewall A in VRRP group 1 decreases to a value lower than 100 and thus

Firewall B can become the master.

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp ipv6 vrid 1 track interface gigabitethernet0/2

reduced 30

# Enable Firewall A to send RA messages, so that Host A can learn the default gateway address.

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] undo ipv6 nd ra halt

2. Configure Firewall B:

<FirewallB> system-view

[FirewallB] ipv6

[FirewallB] interface gigabitethernet0/1

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] ipv6 address fe80::2 link-local

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] ipv6 address 1::2 64

# Create a VRRP group 1 and set its virtual IPv6 addresses to FE80::10 and 1::10.

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp ipv6 vrid 1 virtual-ip fe80::10 link-local

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp ipv6 vrid 1 virtual-ip 1::10

# Set the authentication mode of VRRP group 1 as simple and authentication key as hello.

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp ipv6 vrid 1 authentication-mode simple hello

# Set the interval between sending VRRP advertisements to 400 centiseconds.

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp ipv6 vrid 1 timer advertise 400

# Configure Firewall B to operate in preemptive mode, so that Firewall B can become the master

after the priority of Firewall A decreases to a value lower than 100. Configure the preemption

delay as five seconds to avoid frequent status switchover.

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] vrrp ipv6 vrid 1 preempt-mode timer delay 5

# Enable Firewall B to send RA messages, so that Host A can learn the default gateway address.

[FirewallB-GigabitEthernet0/1] undo ipv6 nd ra halt

3. Verify the configuration:

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

use the display vrrp ipv6 verbose command.

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

[FirewallA-GigabitEthernet0/1] display vrrp ipv6 verbose

IPv6 Standby Information:

Run Mode : Standard

Run Method : Virtual MAC

Total number of virtual routers : 1