ClusterXL with One Public IP

[Kakarot]

Good day All,

I have two Spark 2530 appliance (running R82.00.00 gaia embedded) in a cluster. I have only two public IPs in a mask range of /30 from our ISP provider. Can we achieve ClusterXL with only these two public IPs??

In the ClusterXL admin guide section "Cluster IP Addresses on Different Subnets" page 191. The instructions references "Network management" and this option is not available in our Spark 2530 cluster deployment. Does that mean we cannot achieve Clustering with only two IPs on 2530 appliances??

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R81.20/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R81.20_ClusterXL_AdminGuide/CP_R81.... 

[Chris_Atkinson]

Is the cluster locally managed or is it managed via central management with a security management server (SMS)?
See the R82.00.X admin guide here: https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/Appliances/Quantum_Spark_R82.00.X/AdminGuides_Centrally_Managed... 

[Steffen_Appel]

Just an addition to the document, do not use non private IP-addresses for the interface, but use some from RFC1918 unlike the example.

[Kakarot]

Thanks much. I did try this for the most part. I was having trouble when i selected "get interfaces with topology", It automatically placed a dummy IP address in and was reading my "WAN" interface as internal. But i did not have all settings as prescribe in the guide. So i will try this and advise later in the week. 

Thanks again to u and Chris

[Kakarot]

The Cluster is managed by a Smart-1 SMS appliance

[morris]

Are management and cluster at the same location? Then it should work:

"Important Note - The management must be internal or have an internal interface, and the SIC is established internally."