Cat 2900XL - Clustering

[Ejaz]

Dear All, I want to cluster my 2 switches, so I have one as a 'master' and one as a 'backup'. The theory on this seems fine. However 'physically' how do you do this?
ie
switch1 -->cabled to hubs, etc
switch2 -->cabled to switch1 (crossover cable)??

But if switch1 fails how does switch2 talk to the hubs?

very confused. Thankyou for any help.
EJ

 

[CaRKiLLa]

I may be wrong but clustering your switches is to make management easier even if the switches are in different locations. It isn't for redundancy. The option of making one a backup is so if the command switch fails the backup still have the configuration data. You use the web interface on the switch to control it and all you do is connect to the command switch and you can troubleshoot and reconfig or even upgrade software on all the other clusted switches. For a better explanation and a shot demo of how it works you can go to this link

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/smbiz/multimedia/