Re: Cat 65K power question

I don't know if this is a joke or what,
but you could take out your second sup and place your new card in there
(and then kill the designer that put a dual sup on a single PS cage :)

Seriously, AFAIK the second sup slot has unaccounted power you can use.
-Carlos

Steve Di Bias @ 27/04/2011 14:23 -0300 dixit:
> 1) Interesting scenario, but in all honesty you should be using redundant
> power supplies in your 6500's with enough wattage to power up your blades.
> If you don't have enough power I don't see how you are going to accomplish
> your tasks here.
>
> 2) If you aren't running a first hop redundancy protocol between the two
> routers, how does the other one act as the backup? Are the computers
> pointing to Router A (Primary) as there default gateway? If this is the case
> you will need to manually change this (which will create some downtime) to
> work on router A, and then clear the ARP tables of the client machines who
> will now be pointing to Router B.
>
> Or you could run HSRP/VRRP/GLBP between the two routers :)
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Naufal Jamal <naufalccie_at_yahoo.in> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I have a small challenge in front of me..need some expert advice
>>
>>
>>
>> 1) you have 6500 chasis and single power supply. You want to insert
>> new line
>> card which requires 45w power and chasis doesnt have sufficent power.
>> How will
>> you bring this line card powered on without powering down any othermodule
>> and
>> changing power supply
>> 2) You
>> have two routers A and B at customer site. A is primary and B is its
>> backup.
>> What steps/approach will you follow to do maintenence on router A
>> without any
>> downtime. HSRP is not running between this routers.
>> Please advice
>>
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