RE: FlexWAN & MSFC mapping

From: George Stylianou (georges@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 14:40:21 GMT-3


   
The reason is that I wanted to make use of the spare msfc as another router.

I was just curious to know if anyone has done this. Probably wont do it this
was anyway.

Thanks again
G

-----Original Message-----
From: MADMAN [mailto:dmadlan@qwest.com]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 15:35
To: George Stylianou
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: FlexWAN & MSFC mapping

  Sure I suppose you can, I have never done that and don't understand why
you don't want redundancy at layer3 and your WAN connections via the
flexwan.

  Dave

George Stylianou wrote:
>
> I was interested to know whether I could run them sepearately and only
> use the flex wan for the one sup, and didn't want the flex wan to
> failover to the other sup -- in other words I would continue to have
> layer 2 redundancy with the 2 x sups but no redundancy at a layer 3
> level.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MADMAN [mailto:dmadlan@qwest.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 23:14
> To: George Stylianou
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: FlexWAN & MSFC mapping
>
> I don't quite follow you here. The problem with a flexwan and
> redundant sup/MSFC's is if you lost a SUP/MSFC you had to manually
> configure the backup MSFC. So someone came up with config-sync to
> address this problem but config-sync with it's goofy alt commands etc
> has it's own issues so someone even smarter came up with SRM.
>
> Are you saying that you have automatic redundancy with two sups??
> How are you able to get redundancy on the flexwan if not running
> config-sync or SRM???
>
> Dave
>
> George Stylianou wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone know if this is possible.
> >
> > We have 2 Supervisor cards with MSFC's and would like to run them
> > separately. We also have a FlexWAN card. When the one msfc is
> > reloaded the flexWAN is mapped to the other MSFC. How do we make it
> > switch back to the orignal MSFC without reloading the one that the
> > FlexWAN is currently mapped to.
> >
> > Thanks
> > George
> >
> > George Stylianou
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