I had a customer that did the same thing you described on our 6509's with only 1 sup eng (don't ask me why there was no redundancy - big mistake)that were going into a PIX 510. The cfg is below, and what the standby group info looked like. That was before they shut down and gave us good net guys the boot. The names hav been removed to protect the innocent.
HTH's....... #show standby FastEthernet4/26 - Group 30 Local state is Active, priority 150, may preempt Preemption delayed for at least 300 secs Hellotime 3 holdtime 10 Next hello sent in 00:00:00.098 Hot standby IP address is 128.242.170.1 configured Active router is local Standby router is unknown expired Standby virtual mac address is 0000.0c07.ac1e 61 state changes, last state change 18:27:52 6509 #1 ================================ ! interface FastEthernet4/26 description AC: XXXXXXX -local wire ip address 128.242.170.3 255.255.255.240 no ip redirects no ip proxy-arp ip route-cache same-interface duplex full speed 10 no cdp enable standby 30 priority 150 preempt delay 300 standby 30 ip 128.242.170.1 6509 #2 ========================= ! interface FastEthernet4/26 description AC: XXXXXXXX -local wire ip address 128.242.170.3 255.255.255.240 no ip redirects no ip proxy-arp ip route-cache same-interface duplex full speed 10 no cdp enable standby 30 priority 100 preempt delay 300 standby 30 ip 128.242.170.1 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=46969&t=46929 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

