Cisco 6500 redundant supervisor etherchannel

[Sudhir Menon]

Hello Friends,

I have 2 Cisco 6500 series switch with VS-C6509E-S720-10G ,I have two redundant supervisors in the same chassis on the LAN with no add-on line cards

I need to know if I can use the redundant supervisor 10 Gb uplinks to form a layer-2 Port channel between the two 6500 switches as i do not want to use want to keep the port idle additionally I need more bandwidth between the two switches for my server farm

Thanks in advance ....

Sudhir 

[nkarpysh]

Hi Sudhir,

Yes you can use those. The active SUP will maintain all control functions but redandant one ports are still operational.

Nik

[Sudhir Menon]

Hello Nik,

Thanks for replying,

So will the configuration be a normal layer-2 etherchannel configuration with LACP or PAGP or does it require some feature to be enabled

Sudhir

[Latchum Naidu]

Hi Sudhir,

See the below link will help you.
There is a setup with explaination like VSS.

http://www.netcraftsmen.net/component/content/article/69-data-center/749-vss-configuration.html

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Regards,
Naidu.

[Sudhir Menon]

Hello Latchum,

Not sure if you really got my question ,here it is

I have 2 supervisors VS-C6509E-S720-10G in one chassis of Catalyst 6509 and I have two chassis ,I just want to utlise the port on the redundant supervisor for my data connection

So it is a normal layer-2 port channel between Chassis-1 Te5/4& Te6/4 and Chassis-2 Te5/4 and Te 6/4

Pls let me know if this is possible , I dont want to configure VSL link nor do i want to use it as VSS

Sudhir

[Latchum Naidu · Accepted solution]

Hi Sudhir,

You can configure the etherchannel as you mentioned above.

Please rate the helpfull posts.
Regards,
Naidu.

[nkarpysh · Accepted solution]

Correct both are possible as well as On mode on ports from Standby and Active SUPs.

Nik

[Sudhir Menon]

Thank you Nik and Latchum to both of you for all your help