3750G stackwise L3 recovery time?

[alanwright1]

Hi Folks,

Does anyone know what the recovery time would be if the stackmaster fails? In this case, the stack is running some L3 features and routing etc...

The time i am interested in is the time from the failure, to the time that all the L3 next hops become available with the new master back online.

TIA

Alan

[BrinksArgentina]

All stack members share the routing table, and can continue routing traffic.

This is what documentation say, I have not tried yet.

"If a stack master fails, the stack detects that the stack master is down and elects one of the stack members to be the new stack master. During this period, except for a momentary interruption, the hardware continues to forward packets with no active protocols.

However, even though the switch stack maintains the hardware identification after a failure, the routing protocols on the router neighbors might flap during the brief interruption before the stack master restarts."

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750/software/release/12.2_50_se/configuration/guide/swiprout.html#wp1427489

Guido

[gnijs]

* Make sure you implement NSO/SSF

* In a routing stack , use the "stack-mac persistent" feature. This way the stacks mac address (default gateway etc) will not change during master failover.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750/software/release/12.2_44_se/configuration/guide/swstack.html#wp1206500

* Also carefully look at your other L3 links, so you don't blackhole any traffic if one switch in a stack fails and the rest stays up.

Then convergence should be fairly quick