6509 standby sup720

[zapanta.f]

All,

I noticed that one of my stand by sup720 are inactive and unavailable. Prior to this the card was removed into a new slot. The mac address of the card is recognized. When I intiate a show module the secondary sup720 is labled "unknown". How would I preconfigure this card to become a stand by? I also intiated a "cl mod-config" command versus a reload.

Thanks in advance.

-fz

[Roberto Salazar]

Nope, it is unknown because of several reasons:

1. It is not booted up and it's in rommon.

2. Line card is not working properly.

Most of the time, this is due to the first reason. you need to recover it manually by connecting a console cable to the standby's console and see what kind of prompt you get. Once connected you will probably get a "rommon1>" prompt, which means it did not booted up. Now, you need to determine which processor it is in rommon in. You can quickly check by issuing a "dir bootflash:". If you see a bootable native IOS image, which should look like "s72033..." then that is an image, try to boot it manually with "boot bootflash:".

Better yet, read through this link on how to recover sup IOS from corrupted or missing IOS:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps700/products_tech_note09186a008015bfa1.shtml

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[zapanta.f]

Thank you much? I will ensure the bootvar is set to bootup to the current image. Also, do you know what I need to do to enable ip routing on a 6509? I am unabel to peform l3 inter vlan routing?

Thanks.

-fz

[Roberto Salazar]

IP routing should be enable by default. Are all the interface vlan up/up? make sure they are up/up. Can you post show ip route? do you see the directly connected interfaces (vlan interfaces)? if not, maybe ip routing had been somehow disable, to enable:

conf t

ip routing

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[zapanta.f]

B,

I know I have not lost my mind. I will reverify the vlan int are up and then issue the "IP ROUTING" command for the 100th time. lol. I Evertime I try to intiate the ip routing command I get a error "invalid input" when I am in the vlan int.

[Roberto Salazar]

It's because the "ip routing" command is a global command not an interface command.