[c-nsp] Layer 2 failover

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Jee Kay wrote on 19/4/2006 12:05 πμ:
> On 18/04/06, andrew2 at one.net <andrew2 at one.net> wrote:
> 
>> 2.  Some way to do this using STP?  I'm a WAN guy and have traditionally
>> avoided STP like the plague, but is there a way to accomplish this with
>> it?
> 
> This is the way forward. Just configure a high cost (like 100) on the
> port you don't want to use unless the other is down and you're good to
> go.
> 
> Depending on your failover time requirements, you may want to look at
> rapid spanning tree over PVST/STP.
> 


Or just enable UplinkFast ;)

> Ras
> 
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