HSRP active and passive

[Horacio Gutierrez]

Hello,

If two 6509 swiches have HSRP configure can I plug servers to both 6509 switches the active switch and passive switch and will both be able to route packets.  Also if I can plug servers to the active and passive 6509 switches if the active switch goes down will the servers plugged into to that active switch will it have the Packets routed through the passive switch.  What is really the concept behind HSRP as active and passive in regards to devices plugged into the 6509 switches?

[Jon Marshall · Accepted solution]

No, if the access switch is only connected to one distribution switch and the port that the access switch is connected to goes down, and there are no other ports from that access switch to the distro switch then the access switch cannot send packets to the other distro switch.

Jon