From: MADMAN (dave@interprise.com)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 14:40:22 GMT-3
I don't mind Native mode though I wish they would implement SSO ofr a
quicker failover, curretny supports RPR+ when you have redundant sups.
Also Native doesn't yet support most voice modules which depending on
your point of view could be a good thing;)
Dave
jfaure@sztele.com wrote:
> What do you think about migrating the 6500 to native IOS? Perhaps, it maybe
> the best solution
>
>
>
> Juan Faure Ferrer
> email: jfaure@sztele.com
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> "Colin Barber"
> <Colin.Barber@telew Para: "'dmadlan@qwest.com'"
> est.co.uk> <dmadlan@qwest.com>, "'jfaure@sztele.com'"
> <jfaure@sztele.com>,
> 09/05/03 16:23 ccielab@groupstudy.com
> cc:
> Asunto: RE: 6500 Flexwan modules & Msfc
>
>
>
>
>
> As I said it depends on your requirements. Using SRM you only have one
> active router and therefore you cannot load balance. Also fail over time is
> greater than with HSRP on the VLANS.
>
> Colin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MADMAN [mailto:dave@interprise.com]
> Sent: 09 May 2003 14:42
> To: Colin Barber
> Cc: 'jfaure@sztele.com'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: 6500 Flexwan modules & Msfc
>
>
>
> What you really need to do is run the MSFC's in SRM, single router
> mode. This way you will have automatic redundancy if the case of an
> MSFC failure. Otherwise if you loose your MSFC that controlls the
> flexwan you will have to manually configure your second MSFC, not a good
> plan.
>
> Dave
>
> Colin Barber wrote:
>
>>This is normal. You need to copy the POS configuration into the startup
>>config of the second MSFC. When the switch over occurs then the second
>
> MSFC
>
>>will see the FlexWAN interfaces and load the config.
>>
>>What you must not do is do a write mem on the second MSFC because it will
>>not have the FlexWAN config in it's running config and will erase it from
>>the startup config. Any changes that you make to the primary MSFC should
>
> be
>
>>made to the secondary's running config and also changed in it's startup
>>config file via TFTP.
>>
>>There are different ways to overcome this. You can have the second MSFC
>
> as
> a
>
>>standby (i.e. not running) and once the primary fails it loads up and
>>becomes the primary. This gets around the config issue as any changes
>>written to memory on the primary are copied over to the secondary. The
>>Native IOS solution also works in this way. The only problem with this is
>>both routers are not active as the same time so you cannot do
>
> load-balancing
>
>>with HSRP etc and I think the fail over takes longer.
>>
>>Colin
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: jfaure@sztele.com [mailto:jfaure@sztele.com]
>>Sent: 09 May 2003 10:23
>>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>>Subject: 6500 Flexwan modules & Msfc
>>
>>
>>Hi all:
>>
>>We have a 6500 switch with a flex wan card to support POS interfaces. We
>>are using catos 6.3.8 and IOS (msfc) 12.1.8bE11. The problem we have is
>>that the POS interface only appears in one of the two msfcs we have in
>
> the
>
>>chassis (we have two SP cards & 2 msfcs).
>>
>>Anyone knows if this is normal? Supposing the main SP goes down, then
>>you`d need to configure the second msfcs for operating with the pos
>>interfaces. It seems a very limited implementation, if this is so.
>>
>>Any help would be apreciated.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Juan Faure Ferrer
>>email: jfaure@sztele.com
>>
>>Lmnea de Negocio de Telematica y CC
>>Ingeniero de Integracisn de Redes y Sistemas
>>
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