Cable M-1250/M-1450 Sensor For Failover - McAfee M-1250 Product Manual

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Attaching cables to the Sensor
About connecting Sensors for fail-over
the primary Sensor has some of its monitoring port pairs in non-Inline (tap or SPAN) mode, is provided. For
example, in an M-1450, you may have port pairs 1A-1B configured in in-line mode and ports 2A and 3A
configured in SPAN mode.

Cable M-1250/M-1450 Sensor for failover

Gigabit port 4A is the failover interconnection port on the M-1250/M-1450 Sensor. A crossover failover cable is
the only additional hardware required to support failover communication between two Sensors.
Task
Plug a Cat 5/Cat 5e crossover cable into port 4A of the active Sensor.
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Connect the other end of the cable to the port 4A of the standby Sensor.
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Figure 4-2 M-1450 Sensors connected for failover
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M-1250/1450 Sensors support TCP reset even when connected in tap mode.
M-1250/M-1450 Sensor Product Guide