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Two ISP Links

abbas.ali
Level 1
Level 1

I have a customer who recently replaced their (2) Cisco 2600 routers configured in an HSRP with (2) ISP links in an ethernet hand off Active/Standby with (2) Cisco 3750 stacked  switches.

Interface vlan 2201

ip address 208.68.38.113 28

interface gigabit 1/0/1----------------connected to Primary ISP Link

switch port access vlan 2201

no spanning-tree

interface gigabit 2/0/1--------------- Connected to Secondary ISP Link

switch port access vlan 2201

no spanning-tree

Two things I had to do in order for above configuration to work.

disconnected secondary ISP link otherwise the switch would report an error "Same IP address 208.68.38.113 detected" and disable stp on ports.

I think the only way to configure the above scenario is to undo stacking  between both swtiches and configure HSRP for dynamic failover.

Why did I had to disable STP on ports?  I was not able to ping the ISP routers until I dsiabled  the STP on two ports

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jawad-mukhtar
Level 4
Level 4

I Think so on Secondary ISP there should be an IP address.  Reason of blocking STP is that because ISP could be using Equiment like ONT etc. that might block your port.  I have also faced same issue with ISP.

Jawad