Re: Redundant Switches [7:54614]

2002-09-30 Thread Chuck's Long Road
interesting question - a thought or two in line ""Azhar Teza"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I have a customer who has (1) 6509 backbone switches which is also acting > as a root bridge. (7) 3524 are connect back to 6509 via fiber each as a > seperate unit.

Re: Redundant Switches [7:54614]

2002-09-30 Thread Chuck's Long Road
""Azhar Teza"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I have a customer who has (1) 6509 backbone switches which is also acting > as a root bridge. (7) 3524 are connect back to 6509 via fiber each as a > seperate unit. At this point, if 6509 fails whole network will go

RE: Redundant Switches [7:54614]

2002-10-01 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
The backup switch could be a lower-end switch. It doesn't have to be an exact replica of the other one. This is a classic case of Layer 8 (finances) being as important as the lower layers. It's quite common for the redundant network to be less pricey but also have poorer performance than the prima