| (VM-Series firewalls on ESXi with Intel E810/X710 NICs using
PCI passthrough) To accelerate failover recovery, the
physical layer (PHY) on the passive firewall instance remains
powered on. Intel verified that re-negotiation latency on
passthrough NICs cannot be bypassed; consequently, maintaining an
active link state is required to achieve sub-second port
initialization. Although the CLI displays a powered-down status when
the firewall halts packet forwarding across these interfaces, the
NIC retains an active physical link. As a result, connected upstream
switches detect the interface link state as
UP. |