ACE Connectivity

[Mikey John]

Hi All,

I've 2 units of Cisco 4948 switches connected via trunk.

1st-4948 is the ACTIVE switch

2nd-4948 is the STANDBY switch

& I have 1 ACE 4710 .

If I connect all 4-ports in a port-channel to the 1st-4948 ACTIVE switch (shown below), when the failover happens ACE will lose the connectivity.

Please advise the best possible  connectivity options based on the above scenario.

I am looking for a valid justification why we cannot have two port-channels  Active/standby mode connecting to two different  Active\Standby switches.

Appreciate your reply.

Cheers

Mikey

[Mikey John]

Hi All,

Would appreciate if someone please replies to this post.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Mikey

[Jon Marshall]

Are you saying you know you can't use 2 port channels or not ?

I am confused as to what you mean. Simply connect the ACE device to both switches, using a portchannel on each switch. One will probably block due to STP but will become active if the other uplink fails.

If i have misunderstood please clarify.

Jon