Dedicated Interface for the Stateful Failover Link

You can use a dedicated data interface (physical or EtherChannel) for the state link. See Interface for the Failover Link for requirements for a dedicated state link, and Connecting the Failover Link for information about connecting the state link as well.

For optimum performance when using long distance failover, the latency for the state link should be less than 10 milliseconds and no more than 250 milliseconds. If latency is more than 10 milliseconds, some performance degradation occurs due to retransmission of failover messages.