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Hi,
I have a set up with two core switches linked to together gather with an etherchannel.
Switch A is the primary switch in HSRP and Switch B is secondry.
See digram
What I want to know is how can I set up a tracking object on the ether channel interface of switch B, that if it detects it goes down it moves directly to the active router with out waiting for the time out.
The fact is if the ether channel interface is down i want the secondary switch to be primary. this is not a problem if the primary switch is still up, it notices the link goes down and through tracking it lowers it priority and switch B takes over.
but if primary switch fails completely then I have to wait for the hello packet time outs till it fails over. Now i could lower the hello packets to millisecond time to get a faster fail over. But it seems much better if the secondary switch could monitor the link and rather than lower its own priority if it fails, instead use it as a signal to become active. Any ideas ?
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