Hello, I know this topic had been talked over here a couple of times. But I really didn't get what technical reason behind it. I have two MX250 , failover is connected via a passive P2P fiber connection, and its working and tried a couple of failover scenarios and it worked. According to Maraki, the best practice is, MX Failover links must traverse through a switch or stack of switches. Cisco highly recommends for all their Faiovers to have P2P passive connection if applicable. So it will eliminate additional hop to troubleshoot. I called Maraki Support this morning for something else and personnel said they don't even bother to troubleshoot HA pair issues if it's not followed by Meraki best practices. My questions are, 1. Why Meraki is discouraging to have P2P for failover/heartbeat VRRP connection? What advantage do we have especially when it's working with passive connection? 2. If switching infrastructure (as per Meraki) is not available, and passive P2P is not allowed what would be the next solution? 3. How to convince Meraki support personnel to think out the guide book and troubleshoot the issue? Thought of picking great minds here. Thanks in advance.
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