failover

gre-config-instance

Enables periodic pinging of the primary gateway to assess its availability. When enabled, the system continues pinging, an unreachable gateway, for a specified number of times and at the specified interval.

This option is disabled by default.

Supported in the following platforms:

Syntax

failover interval <1-250> retry <1-10>

Parameters

failover interval <1-250> retry <1-10>
failover interval <1-250> retry <1-10> Specifies the interval, in seconds, between two successive pings to the primary gateway. If the primary gateway is unreachable, the system pings it at intervals specified here.
  • <1-250> – Specify a value from 1 - 250 seconds.
    • retry – Specifies the maximum number attempts made to ping the primary gateway before the session is terminated.
      • <1-10> – Specify a value from 1 - 10.

Example

nx9500-6C8809(config-profile test410-gre-tunnel-test)#failover interval 200 retry 5

nx9500-6C8809(config-profile test410-gre-tunnel-test)#show context
 gre tunnel testGRETunnel
  dscp 20
  failover interval 200 retry 5
nx9500-6C8809(config-profile test410-gre-tunnel-test)#

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