Hardware Setup for SRX-series Chassis Clusters

To create most SRX-series chassis clusters, you must physically connect a pair of the same kind of supported SRX-series devices back-to-back over a pair of Gigabit Ethernet connections or a pair of 10-Gigabit Ethernet connections. For SRX 210 devices, you must connect devices back-to-back over a pair of Fast Ethernet connections. The connection that serves as the control link must be the built-in controller port on each device. The fabric link connection can be a combination of any pair of Gigabit Ethernet interfaces on the devices. Figure 50, Figure 51, and Figure 52 show pairs of SRX-series devices with the fabric links and control links connected.

Note: For the SRX 3000 and 5000 lines, the control link ports are a one-to-one mapping with the Routing Engine slot. If your Routing Engine is in slot 0, you must use control port 0 to link the Routing Engines.

Figure 50: Connecting SRX-series Devices in a Cluster (SRX 5800 Devices)

Figure 51: Connecting SRX-series Devices in a Cluster (SRX 3400 Devices)

Figure 52: Connecting SRX-series Devices in a Cluster (SRX 210 Devices)