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jparrot
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Sep 24, 2012

How to force "re-link" of all ports

Hi,

i'm using a GSM7224 on our IP-TV setup

there's a machine sending unicast tv feed to a virtual address shared between 2 machine.

to be clearer:
sender ip 10.10.10.100 sending TV feed to 10.10.10.232 UDP 6000
primary reciever 10.10.10.230 with virtual ip 10.10.10.232
secondary reciever 10.10.10.231 with offline virtual ip 10.10.10.232 for redundancy

the feed is working perfectly on the primary, but when we fall to the redundancy the primary release the virtual 10.10.10.232 and the seconday get it.

but the seconday is not receiving any unicast until I manually deplug and replug the sender. ofther the "link" routine dones the feed is correctly sent to the new port with the virtual ip.

i've tired to put any ARP timer i've found to 10 ou 15 seconds but it's not working.

any idea how to simulate the physical "unplug" "replug"

thanks for any help.

5 Replies

  • Well, simulating manually without physically unplugging the cables:


    Switch>enable
    Switch#configure
    Switch (Config)#interface 0/xx
    Switch (Interface 0/xx)#shut
    Switch (Interface 0/xx)#no shut
    Switch (Interface 0/xx)#exit
  • ahah, I never thought of this one.

    i'm sure it will work, i'll use this if I have to switch to redundancy while i'm at the office, but i've forget to ask something in my previous post.

    this should be an automatic process, like "resync" every 10 minutes or less.

    thanks
  • Hi thanks for your answer, I never thought of this one...

    i'm sure it will work if I have to switch to the redundancy while I'm at the office,
    but I forget to add something in my previous post. This should be an automatical process. Like "resync" every 10 minutes.

    thanks
  • Yup, that's why I set "manually" in bold, because I expected you were looking for something more automatically. :)

    Would be interesting to see if killing the ARP table manually would also do the same as shutdown using

    clear arp-switch

    - or possibly the

    clear arp-cache

    commands.

    You might also be interested in the

    show arp

    and

    show arp-switch

    commands.
  • Confirmed, the shut/no shut is working
    the clear arp-switch and clear-arp cache do nothing to the unicast

    here's th show arp result, but I dont see here any of the unicast feed, only the computers managing the switch.

    i've forget to tell taht aI have Vlan1 for management in 192.168.1.0/24 and vlan102 for TV equipment in 10.0.0.0

    maybe another clear "something" command will do the job.

    (GSM7224V2) #show arp

    Age Time (seconds)............................. 15
    Response Time (seconds)........................ 1
    Retries........................................ 1
    Cache Size..................................... 476
    Dynamic Renew Mode ............................ Enable
    Total Entry Count Current / Peak .............. 4 / 13
    Static Entry Count Configured / Active / Max .. 0 / 0 / 16

    IP Address MAC Address Interface Type Age
    --------------- ----------------- -------------- -------- -----------
    192.168.1.53 30:46:9A:16:0B:6E 4/1 Local n/a
    192.168.1.63 00:11:07:02:A5:8A 4/1 Dynamic 0h 0m 11s
    192.168.1.81 00:26:B9:80:6E:0D 4/1 Dynamic 0h 0m 7s
    192.168.1.247 00:17:C5:76:BE:B8 4/1 Gateway 0h 0m 4s

    (GSM7224V2) #show arp switch

    MAC Address IP Address Interface
    ------------------- ---------------- ------------

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