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The following commands enable MSFC conﬁg-sync:

MSFC-Sup-15 (config)# redundancy

MSFC-Sup-15 (config-r)# high-availability

MSFC-Sup-15 (config-r-ha)# config-sync

With conﬁg-sync, all conﬁgurations for the designated and nondesignated MSFCs are done through the CLI of the designated

MSFC. Conﬁguration of the nondesignated MSFC is accomplished through the use of the alt keyword. This is the only way

to conﬁgure the nondesignated MSFC when conﬁg-sync is enabled. For example:

MSFC-Sup-15 (config-if)# ip address a.b.c.1 x.x.x.0 alt ip address a.b.c.2 x.x.x.0

MSFC-Sup-15 (config-if)# standby 10 priority 100 alt standby 10 priority 50

The command syntax does not change. The portion of the command listed before the alt keyword applies to the MSFC in slot

1 and the portion of the command listed after the alt keyword applies to the MSFC in slot 2. The conﬁg-sync feature is only

supported for general IP or IPX conﬁgurations; conﬁguration parameters for Appletalk, DECnet, etc. do not have

corresponding alt keyword options.

WAN Interfaces in DRM

In DRM, the Optical Service Module (OSM) or FlexWAN interfaces of a WAN module are managed by only the designated

MSFC. Prior to enabling the conﬁg-sync feature, the WAN interfaces do not show up in the nondesignated MSFC

conﬁguration so are not conﬁgurable on the nondesignated MSFC. During a supervisor engine or MSFC failover, the MSFC

that becomes the new designated MSFC will not have properly conﬁgured WAN interfaces. For this reason a redundant

supervisor or MSFC conﬁguration without conﬁg-sync was not supported with WAN modules installed. By enabling the

MSFC conﬁg-sync feature, this limitation is removed and WAN modules are supported in a redundant supervisor

conﬁguration. WAN modules should not reset during a high-availability switchover with conﬁg-sync enabled.

DRM Challenges

DRM was the original option for MSFC redundancy. This solution has been very successful by allowing for stateful Layer 3

failover between MSFCs, but it also introduces some complexity into network design and administration. The following three

points present scenarios where DRM does not provide the best solution for Layer 3 redundancy:

• Each MSFC must have a unique IP address for each VLAN interface. In a distribution or core implementation using DRM

as well as dual chassis, this could require up to ﬁve router IP addresses to be allocated per VLAN (four router addresses

plus one HSRP address). This also increases the number of routing protocol neighbors, which can add to the CPU burden

on a router. The tasks of addressing and managing four routers in this case can be a challenge that outweighs the beneﬁts

of added redundancy.

• In a redundant conﬁguration where multiple MSFCs are connected to the same Ethernet segment, only one MSFC

forwards the multicast trafﬁc from the source to the receivers on the outgoing interfaces. The Protocol Independent

Multicast designated forwarder (PIM-DF) forwards the data in the common VLAN, but the non-PIM-DF receives the

forwarded multicast trafﬁc as well. The redundant MSFC (non-PIM-DF) must drop this trafﬁc because it has arrived on

the wrong interface and will fail the reverse path forwarding (RPF) check. Trafﬁc that fails the RPF check is called

non-RPF trafﬁc. In general, routers may not handle non-RPF trafﬁc efﬁciently. With DRM, there is at least one router (the

other MSFC) on each VLAN that will receive this non-RPF trafﬁc.

• The requirement for exact conﬁguration parameters on both MSFCs has been a complicated point for many customers.

The effort to ensure that all conﬁguration parameters are the same is a challenge when working with large Cisco IOS

conﬁguration ﬁles. Feature enhancements such as conﬁg-sync have been developed to simplify this process but do not

scale.

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