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vss link broken

m.arancibia
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hi, I need to know what happend in the follow condition:

VSS between 2 6509 through one port-channel with a unique link.

The line card turn powerdown, so the vss link was broken. In this situation both VSS appears ACTIVE(local), so if we change the configuration in one of them that has mayor priority.Exist some procedure to re-activate the VSS link?or turn up automatically?

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rparames
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Cisco Employee

First of all, having a single link acting as VSL is not a recommended design. It is recommened to have atleast 2 links in the VSL and the links should terminte on 2 different chassis.

From

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12.2SX/configuration/guide/vss.html#wp1063718

Recovery Actions

An VSS active chassis that detects a dual-active condition shuts down  all of its non-VSL interfaces (except interfaces configured to be  excluded from shutdown) to remove itself from the network, and waits in  recovery mode until the VSL links have recovered. You might need to  intervene directly to fix the VSL failure. When the shut down chassis  detects that VSL is operational again, the chassis reloads and returns  to service as the VSS standby chassis.

Loopback interfaces are also shut down in recovery mode. We do not  recommend configuring loopback interfaces at this time (while in  recovery mode), because any new loopback interfaces configured in  recovery mode will not be shut down.


Note If the running configuration of  the chassis in recovery mode has been changed without saving, the  chassis will not automatically reload. In this situation, you must write  the configuration to memory and then reload manually.

So to answerr your question

" so if we change the configuration in one of them that has mayor  priority.Exist some procedure to re-activate the VSS link?or turn up  automatically?"

Answer: No you cannot turn it up automatically