FWIW I would go with SRM and HSRP between the two active MSFCs in the
respective switches, in fact I have down just that several times.
Dave
rich wrote:
> Hi all. I wanted to bounce this off the community and see if anyone else
has
> done this.
>
> Right now I have 2 6500's. Both with 2X Sup2's, 2X MSFC2's, PFC's etc. Both
> identical.
>
> This website
>
(http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00801dd6d5.html#wp1023286) describes my scenario exactly. And I have made that config work before.
>
> We have access layer switches, dual homed to both switches. Spantree Root
is
> set on primary HSRP interface, and secondary on other.
>
> Now instead of going with this scenario, I was thinking of doing SRM in
both
> switches, and just running HSRP between them. Seems like it would be
> somewhat of a cleaner config to me.
>
> Less complicated. If the primary SUP goes down, the secondary with mirror
> MSFC will kick in (routing convergence needs to happen), and then bam.
> Chassis redundancy is achieved through HSRP between the switches.
>
> I honestly dont even feel like interleaving the VLANs. Even though we
have
> many, traffic is nil. And a little tuning of HSRP and implementing
> rapid-pvst+ I can achieve very quick convergence.
>
> Does anyone see any issues with this? Anyone have this configuration
running?
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