ACE ft peer X ??

Question

Hi All,
We have 2 ACE's in two different 6513 chassis.
We are trying to configure redundancy on the, but one think
it not clear to me. Shouls ft peer X be different on second
ACE blade? It's really not clear to me and cisco documentation
makes it even worse :( So to my understanding failover should be
configured like this:
ACE 01
ft interface vlan 2000
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.248
peer ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.248
no shutdown
ft peer 1 <<< ===
heartbeat interval 200
heartbeat count 20
ft-interface vlan 2000
ft group 10
peer 1
no preempt
peer priority 200
associate-context CTX1
inservice
ACE 02
ft interface vlan 2000
ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.248
peer ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.248
no shutdown
ft peer 2 <<< ====
heartbeat interval 2000
heartbeat count 20
ft-interface vlan 2000
ft group 10
peer 2
no preempt
peer priority 100
associate-context CTX1
inservice
but in all examples and in all forums i can see that ft peer is configured
with the same number on both ACE's. To my understanding it should uniquely identify devices/peer's but i guess my understanding is wrong.
Thanks,
Darius

Answer 1

switch/Admin(config)# ft peer ?
<1-1> Please enter FT Peer ID
switch/Admin(config)# ft peer
It has a local meaning only.
So we can reuse the same value on each blade.
Gilles.