12-06-2007 02:19 PM - edited 03-05-2019 07:52 PM
If I have one access 6509 switch connected to 2 core 6509 switch as follows..
Switch a - dual 10g sup..
slot 5 -- Active
slot 6 - Hot
Slot 5, supA-connected to core 1
Slot 6 , sup B- connected to core 2.
Running MST spanning tree
Since slot 5 is active, I expected my traffic to be following through there primarily.
But if I lose my link from core 1 to supA, will traffic then kick over to supB even though it's only in 'hot' mode ? I'm getting conflicting answers...
due to port count restriction on my core switches, I cannot do one link to core 1 and one link to core 2
on supA and the same on supB.
I also cannot do a full layer 3 to the core for now.
thanks
all
12-06-2007 07:01 PM
Hi there, I believe there may be some mis-understanding regarding the redundancy of the supervisors. In order to force the redundant supervisor to forward frames you need to make the hot sup process traffic.
12-06-2007 08:46 PM
therein lies my problem. Is that possible ?how do you make a 'hot' module take over if the active module is still 'active' but the link to on the 'active' module drops....
12-07-2007 04:43 AM
I would recommend reading through the 6500 configuration guide. I have linked you directly to the redundancy configuration section.
12-07-2007 01:48 PM
I think what you are implying is that unless I manually flip the secondary sup to make it active, there is no automatic redundancy.
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