So, you are thinking of using multiple ports for the connection between
the switches?
That was my last refuge as well. I was looking to see if anyone had
implemented anything else, and how it turned out for them.
Brant Stevens wrote:
> A trunked EtherChannel link would cover those problems...
>
> Brant I. Stevens
> Internetwork Solutions Engineer
> Thrupoint, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Jim Healis
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:47 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: HSRP configuration
>
>
> What about physical port failure? Or cable failure (i.e. gets yanked
> out by an idiot)?
> That's the kind of failure I was thinking of when I mentioned the single
> point.
>
> Brant Stevens wrote:
>
>
>> Why not use an etherchannel connection for the isl link between the
>> switches. this would eliminate the single point of failure....
>>
>> Brant I. Stevens
>> Internetwork Solutions Engineer
>> Thrupoint, Inc.
>> 545 Fifth Avenue, 14th Floor
>> New York, NY. 10017
>> 646-562-6540
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
>> Jim Healis
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 2:21 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: HSRP configuration
>>
>>
>> For those that have used HSRP in your networks for redundant external
>> connections, how have you dealt with the "single point of failure" issue
>> when you have two routers, two switches and using ISL to run HSRP
>> between them?
>>
>> I have two 7206VXR routers, two Cat 6509 switches. My current drawing
>> shows using the ISL uplinks from the switches to the routers and the ISL
>> link between the two switches to pass HSRP heartbeat. But I figure that
>> if the ISL link between the switches ever drops, then I have lost the
>> heartbeat and I have two active routers trying to be active HSRP.
>>
>> I thought about using MHSRP, and having two separate groups for the two
>> separate switches the routers are connected to, but I still run into
>> that hearbeat thing again.
>>
>> The last thought that I had was to run two ethernet segments from each
>> router to each switch. That would give the needed redundancy, but it
>> would cost so much.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Jim
>>
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