connecting two 6513 in redundancy not vss

[Kevin100]

Hai

one of my client want to connect two 6513 with 2T not in vss as some modules are old and not supported for vss.

How can i connect both switches  in sso for supervisor redundancy.

Please help

[Mark Malone]

Hi

dont think you can do that , the sups would need to be in the same chassis for sso or else be vss  setup and acting as 1 unit for redundant fail over , hsrp will allow fail over to 2nd unit if 1st SUP fails and shuts down but not actual sso redundency

[Kevin100]

Hai

Thanks for all for  the clarification

Best regards

John

[Jon Marshall]

Mark is correct (+5), you can't do this unless you have dual sups per chassis.

SSO in a non VSS setup is for failover between sups in the same chassis not between chassis.

With two 6500s not running VSS and one sup per chassis you would configure them as you would any two L3 switches that are acting as a core/distro pair ie. you configure them both individually and for end clients you can run HSRP/GLBP/VRRP for gateway redundancy.

Your end clients will probably be connecting via access switches but for any other devices that you connect directly to the 6500s you want them to connect to both switches.

Jon