Firewall-1

Re: [FW-1] Changing VLAN tags on firewall interfaces

Subject: Re: [FW-1] Changing VLAN tags on firewall interfaces
From: chkp tech <chkptech AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST AT AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT DOT COM
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:49:06 -0500
I don't see anything wrong with this procedure, and while I thought about
it, I wondered if you should push the policy to both members of the cluster
or not.  After discussing it with engineers around here, we don't think that
pushing the policy to both members would be a problem.

Let us know if you run into any problems =)

Jason


On 10/24/06, Marty, Luke <luke.marty AT nwa DOT com> wrote:

Good morning,

I have a bit of a unique problem this morning.  I have a need to change
the VLAN id's of the inside and outside interfaces of a HA pair of
firewalls.  This needs to be done with zero downtime.  Here's what I'm
thinking of doing...



1)     Login to the secondary(standby) firewall and change the
/etc/sysconfig/netconf.C and netconf.C.keep files to reflect the new
vlan IDs

2)     Login to the SmartCenter, and edit the topology of the secondary
cluster member to reflect the new interface names. Then saving the
policy.

3)     Rebooting the secondary firewall

4)     Logging in to the secondary firewall and changing the management
interface to the new interface name.

5)     Push policy on the pair

6)     Making the switch changes to update the vlans

7)     Running a cpstop on the primary firewall to force the secondary
to take over

8)     Performing steps 1-5 on the other firewall



I'm running NGX R60hfa03, HA new mode on Splat.



Is this going to work?  Has anyone done the same thing and have a better
set of suggestions? Your insight is greatly appreciated.



Regards,



-Luke



Luke Marty

Network Security Engineering




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