[nsp] Normal time for Active->Standby Switchover (6500 Sup1A)

Brian signal at shreve.net
Wed May 21 13:49:30 EDT 2003


Thanks for the reply,

Were you running HSRP between the two MSFC's?  I ask because I thought
that HSRP would be alot quicker than 2-4 minutes.

Brian


On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 11:14, Voll, Scott wrote:
> Brian--
> 
> >From my experience when we were running hybrid (catOS 6.5)(2x
> Sup1a/MSFC2/PFC) Layer 2 was under 30 seconds and Layer 3 took a long
> time, Probably close to 2-4 minutes.  Our FlexWAN had to start from
> scratch, building interfaces and getting routing tables.  When we moved
> to SRM the layer 3 time came down but can't remember what kind of time
> it was.  We moved to Native so my memory may be a little fuzzy.
> 
> --Scott
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian [mailto:signal at shreve.net] 
>  
> Can anyone comment on what the normal time would be for a 
> Active->Standby Sup1A
> switchover on a 6500?  I was looking on Cisco's site, and saw that they 
>   did say for RPR it was
> like 2-4 minutes and for RPR+ 30-60 seconds.  But it looked like RPR 
> was a IOS feature,
> and I am running Hybrid (6.4.3).  I realize that after the Sup 
> switches, spanning tree has to
> reconverge.  High Availability is enabled.
> 
> Brian
> 
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