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Connecting two ports with two switches.

j.pewarski
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I have a 2960 and a 2811 with a hwic card I have one port set as 100 meg and another port set at 10 meg. Both are set to access mode. i need one port for failover (10 meg) . I can't do etherchannel on the hwic. How do I prevent a loop when I connect my second connection. While having both connections up. Should I use bpdu guard? the goal is to have one port fail over if the 100 meg goes down. And I'm currently running ospf so it should take the faster connection.

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John Blakley
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Jeffery,

See if you can use flex links on the switch:

switchport backup interface <10mb port>

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2960/software/release/12.2_55_se/configuration/guide/swflink.html#wp1056578

HTH,

John

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