Ports on the redundant sup (SSO)

[b-lodwick]

During normal operation on a 6500 with Sup32s while both supervisor engines are healthy and configured with SSO are the ports on the redundant supervisor engine active and available for use, or are they disabled until the primary sup fails?

[Alvaro Garcia]

There are two versions of Sup32:

• 8 x 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) plus 1 x 10/100/1000 uplink port

• 2 x 10 GbE XENPAK plus 1 x 10/100/1000 uplink port

For the 8-port Sup32 model on redundant configurations, all 16 uplink ports can be active, but not all ports can operate at line rate simultaneously because of the bus speed at 15 Mpps.

For the 10-GbE Sup32 model, all 4 10-GbE ports can be simultaneously active in redundant configurations.

[b-lodwick]

Oustanding response. Thank you.

[Alvaro Garcia]

Thanks for the good rating Brian