Nonstop Forwarding During Card Failover; Link Failover; Bundle Interfaces: Redundancy, Load Sharing, Aggregation; How To Configure Link Bundling - Cisco ASR 9000 Series Configuration Manuallines

Nonstop Forwarding During Card Failover

Note A link is configured to be a member of a bundle from the interface configuration submode for that link.
Nonstop Forwarding During Card Failover
The Cisco IOS XR software supports nonstop forwarding during failover between active and standby paired
RSP cards. Nonstop forwarding ensures that there is no change in the state of the link bundles when a failover
occurs.
For example, if an active RSP fails, the standby RSP becomes operational. The configuration, node state, and
checkpoint data of the failed RSP are replicated to the standby RSP. The bundled interfaces will all be present
when the standby RSP becomes the active RSP.
Note Failover is always onto the standby RSP.
Note You do not need to configure anything to guarantee that the standby interface configurations are maintained.

Link Failover

When one member link in a bundle fails, traffic is redirected to the remaining operational member links and
traffic flow remains uninterrupted.

Bundle Interfaces: Redundancy, Load Sharing, Aggregation

A bundle is a group of one or more ports that are aggregated together and treated as a single link. The different
links within a single bundle can have varying speeds, where the fastest link can be a maximum of four times
greater than the slowest link. Each bundle has a single MAC, a single IP address, and a single configuration
set (such as ACLs or QoS).
The router supports bundling for these types of interfaces:
• Ethernet interfaces
• VLAN subinterfaces

How to Configure Link Bundling

Configuring Ethernet Link Bundles

This section describes how to configure a Ethernet link bundle.
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Configuring Link Bundles