Changing how long routes stay in a cluster unit routing table
You can use the HA route time to live (route-ttl
) option to control how long routes remain active in the new primary (master) FortiGate-7000E after an FGCP HA failover. The default route-ttl
is 600 seconds. The range is 5 to 3600 seconds (one hour). You can use the following command to change the route-ttl
time.
config system ha
set route-ttl <time>
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To maintain communication sessions through a new primary FortiGate-7000E, routes remain active in the routing table for the route-ttl
time while the new primary FortiGate-7000E acquires new routes. Normally keeping route-ttl
to the default value of 600 seconds (10 minutes) is acceptable because acquiring new routes and populating the routing tables of multiple FIMs and FPMs can take a few minutes.
If the primary FortiGate-7000E needs to acquire a very large number of routes, or if for other reasons there is a delay in acquiring all routes, the primary FortiGate-7000E may not be able to maintain all communication sessions after a failover.
You can increase the route-ttl
time if you find that communication sessions are lost after a failover. Increasing the route-ttl
time allows the primary unit to use synchronized routes that are already in the routing table for a longer period of time while waiting to acquire new routes.
For more information, see Synchronizing kernel routing tables.