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Cisco trunking and redundancy

We have 2 Cisco switches (SG300 - layer 3). I am unfamiliar with Cisco, and have been mostly working with HP ProCurve switches.

I am trying to connect the two switches together to provide redundancy. With ProCurve, I would have the below config setup on both switches:

trunk A14,B14,C14,C16 Trk1 Trunk

Along with XRRP config like below:

xrrp
xrrp router 2
xrrp instance 2 1
xrrp instance 1 1 ip 10.0.16.1 255.255.255.224
xrrp instance 2 2
xrrp instance 1 2 ip 10.0.15.249 255.255.255.248

How do I do the same thing on Cisco switches?

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Infamus

@donjohnston

Thanks, don for clearing it up, I was assuming that this switch supports hsrp.

Why is HP call etherchannel a "trunking"?. Another confusion.

@pizozulka

Let me know if you want to see a sample config of Etherchannel/Portchannel.

Don Johnston

The term "etherchannel" was created by Kalpana in the 90's. When Cisco bought Kalpana, they got the term, which, IIRC, is trademarked. This means no one else can call their aggregation method "etherchannel".

Infamus

Thanks for the info, now I get it.

:)

pzozulka

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So if the SG300 does not support HSRP, what would happen if one of them was to fail.

For example, our ESXi server is using NIC Teaming and uses Switch A as the default gateway. What would happen if that switch would go down?

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