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Why not use cisco's HSRP (Hot Standby Routing Protocol)?
Faster cutover, easy config (one virtual address for two interfaces)?

Rex Sanders wrote:
> 
> If you have a very well-defined and controlled network, you could adjust
> the spanning tree timeout parameters in most Cisco equipment to reduce the
> cutover time.
> 
> Of course, this could be an excellent lessen in how to crash a network.
> Allow plenty of time for analysis & experimentation, or find an expert in
> STP.
> 
> -- Rex
> 
> In article <35187EC3.E75031D8@vickers.com.hk>, Kimmy Chan
> <kimmy_chan@vickers.com.hk> wrote:
> >    My company's business is highly dependent on network service for
> >both internal LAN access and external data feeds. Currently, we don't
> >have any redundancy build in any network path to backup the system and
> >we are planning to do so. We are using Cisco products (switches, routers
> >etc) and some network vendors proposed Fast Ether Channel with spanning
> >tree protocol to provide alternate network path. However, our concern is
> >the spanning tree protocol which incurs a switch-over time (vary from
> >5sec to 50sec) that will make all connected IP sessions disconnect and
> >they need to be established again. Any other better methods avoid the
> >session disconnect?