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Jason_L_40779
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Aug 15, 2010

Vlan failsafe-Trunks

Does anyone know or have experience with the suggested timeout period for using vlan failsafe? If I leave it at the default of 90 seconds and the Vlan were to be down on the switch the active unit is...
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Chris_Miller
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Aug 15, 2010
Jayson,

 

 

I have always reduced the timeout to 10 seconds like you did. I think the default time is as high as it is to avoid a flapping state between the boxes. If you have a network with plenty of broadcasts or servers that will always be up, you can be pretty aggressive.

 

 

As far as your trunking question goes, I definitely use LACP and do so using the default settings. Depending on your requirements, Using "Short" instead of "Long" for "LACP Timeout" wouldn't be a bad idea.