High Availability on Verizon FiOS
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I have a Verizon FiOS connection, and no router. I own two TZ400W, and I want them to work in HA mode. The problem is that the Verizon FiOS ONT box will not give public IP addresses to two routers, only one. So when I try to plug in the second TZ400W, one of them will have an IP address, and the other will get nothing. Is there a way for me to make it work?
NOTE: I noticed that the HA configuration has a checkbox that says "Enable virtual MAC", but I'm afraid this will have an effect on both directions (LAN and WAN), and that 'll probably mean that the switch on the LAN side will have to know how to handle this situation. Can someone shine a light here for me, please?
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Putting two firewalls in HA mode mean they share the same IP address(es) and handle the High Availability through a dedicated link. While you can assign other IP's to the devices individually for management, the HA IP is the important one. You want the virtual MAC.
I'm not sure if you can use DHCP on the WAN interface in a HA situation though. I've never done it.