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Fotios_30046's avatar
Fotios_30046
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Oct 12, 2009

Proper Way To Connect Two 3400's To Two Cisco 6509's

We have an active/passive set of 3400's connected to a single switch. Each 3400 is connected with all 8 interfaces in one large trunk port with several vlans on top of the trunk port. We're adding a...
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Jose_Santiago_O
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Oct 12, 2009
Hi,

 

 

In our configurations, we have each big-ip connected to both switches, and the switches are responsible for Rapid Spanning Tree, in order to have full redundancy.

 

 

Each VLAN have 2 interfaces on the big-ips, and each interface go to different switches.

 

 

It requires some configuration on the switch side to work smoothly. It creates some flaping on the network every failover or reboot, caused by the RSTP negotiations, but that is normal.

 

 

Regards,

 

Jose Oyervides.