High Availability

Symptom

Condition / Workaround

Issue

With Active/Passive High Availability enabled

Occurs when HA is enabled with probing and the

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with probing, and the primary WAN interface

primary WAN interface is configured with a

 

configured with a redundant port, the primary

redundant port. If the link for the active port goes

 

WAN interface and all routes to this subnet are

down, Load Balancing (enabled by default) will

 

marked as down when the primary port stops

change the status of the primary WAN interface to

 

working.

“Failover”. All routes to the primary WAN subnet

 

 

will be marked as down and traffic destined to the

 

 

subnet will fail. However, traffic will still succeed to

 

 

any destination that is on the far side of the

 

 

default gateway of the primary WAN interface, by

 

 

using the redundant port. Workaround: Disable

 

 

Load Balancing or HA probing.

 

Module

Symptom

Condition / Workaround

Issue

The LAN Bypass module’s Bypass Status LED

Occurs when configuring an SFP module in Layer

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indicates that bypass mode is active during the

2 Bridge Mode, then replacing it with a LAN

 

boot process, then changes to the normal mode

Bypass module.

 

in which bypass is ready, but not active.

 

 

The ADSL card cannot connect in DHCP mode.

Occurs when configuring an ADSL card with the

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WAN in DHCP mode. The Status mode, Point-to-

 

 

Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), and Layer 2

 

 

Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) do not work with this

 

 

configuration.

 

Networking

Symptom

Condition / Workaround

Issue

On the X1 interface, 1Gbps traffic sometimes

Occurs when passing traffic through the X1

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does not reach the WAN. After configuring the

interface with a 1Gbps switch and forcing the X1

 

link speed, the link status displays the

interface’s link speed to 1000Mbps or 100Mbps.

 

previously configured speed.

Workaround: Configure the SonicOS to

 

 

auto-negotiate link speed.

 

Configuring more than one remote appliance

Occurs when an additional remote appliance is

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with a tunnel interface and OSPF could result in

configured with a tunnel interface and OSPF is

 

dropped routes.

enabled.

 

SonicOS 5.8.1.2 Release Notes for the NSA 220/250M Series Appliances

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