magic mac number

[kagarner]

I have 2 firewalls running NG AI R55 HFA_18 on HP DL 380's, Active/Standby on the standby firewall I am seeing the following error:

FW-1: fwha_receive_fwhap_msg: received HAP packet with bad magic number c

Has anyone seen anything like this before? any idea what could be causing this.

Thanks,
K.

[chillyjim]

Do you have more than one cluster connected to the same VLAN? if so look at sk25977

[kagarner]

Thanks I will look at that article. But according to my network guy the 2 sets of firewall's we have here are on different vlan's.

[chillyjim]

Have him check again epically the sync interfaces, that is the only way you should see that error that I know of.

[kagarner]

Our sync interfaces are cross-over cables between the firewalls. Would that make a difference in this error I am seeing.

Thanks for your help.

[chillyjim]

No it shouldn't. The error means that the cluster member is seeing sync traffic from a gateway that's not in its cluster.

[MarioL]

It has been a LONG time since last I configured a CP cluster, but I remember them being quite "chatty". Check logs to see what interface is seeing the packets.

[kagarner]

I checked the logs but it does not point to a specific interface it just has the error msg:

kernel: FW-1: fwha_receive_fwhap_msg: received HAP packet
with bad magic number c

Any suggestion on how I can tell where it is seeing that from.