This has been enhanced in FastIron v7.2 for the FCX series switches to be an immediate/hitless failover (both in router and switch software images)
The process you described is still the case for FGS and FLS though (30 seconds+reboot). Jared On Dec 2, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Igor Ybema <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > We would like to use Ironstack (fastiron family) to be able to create > port-channels/trunks over multiple fysical switches to combat single > switch failures. > > However from the fastiron manual I noticed the following: > > "If the Active Controller fails, the Standby controller waits 30 > seconds, and then takes over as Active Controller, resetting itself > and all other stack members." > > (a controller is one switch in the stack) > > If this is true (and if it's in the manual it probably is) a ironstack > can not be used for any redundancy configurations and we have to go > with other redundancy methods. > > Does anyone have experience with this? Does anyone know why > brocade/foundry needs to restart the stack if the master/active switch > fails? Is there maybe a config option to not reset the stack? > > > regards, Igor > _______________________________________________ > foundry-nsp mailing list > [email protected] > http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp _______________________________________________ foundry-nsp mailing list [email protected] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
