Slow stateful failover for mission critical applications

I have two CSS running vip redundancy,ip interface redundancy and redundant-index on a ASR active-backup model.
They are attached to separate 3750 which share vlan info via a port channel.
When the master fails, we see the VRIR negotiation and mastership of VIPs occurs normally but the script that we run to validate our services fails and the services go to a down state.
Since the gateway for the reals is a redundant VIP that stays alive always based on a DUMMY service, we believe this could be a mac address table update on the 3750.
Traffic back from the reals is still sent to the "old" port where the gateway used to live.
Failover takes several minutes and TCP sessions timeout defeting stateful failover.
Any ideas???
Thanks
MANUEL

VLAN1 STP State: Disabled
VLAN1: Root Max Age: 6 Root Hello Time: 1 Root Fwd Delay: 4
Designated Root: 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-78
Bridge ID: 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-78
Root Port Desg
Port State Designated Bridge Designated Root Cost Cost Port
VLAN11 STP State: Disabled
VLAN11: Root Max Age: 6 Root Hello Time: 1 Root Fwd Delay: 4
Designated Root: 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-79
Bridge ID: 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-79
Root Port Desg
Port State Designated Bridge Designated Root Cost Cost Port
e1 Fwd 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-79 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-79 0 19 8001
VLAN211 STP State: Disabled
VLAN211: Root Max Age: 6 Root Hello Time: 1 Root Fwd Delay: 4
Designated Root: 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-7a
Bridge ID: 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-7a
Root Port Desg
Port State Designated Bridge Designated Root Cost Cost Port
VLAN222 STP State: Disabled
VLAN222: Root Max Age: 6 Root Hello Time: 1 Root Fwd Delay: 4
Designated Root: 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-7b
Bridge ID: 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-7b
Root Port Desg
Port State Designated Bridge Designated Root Cost Cost Port
e3 Fwd 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-7b 06-a4-00-11-93-90-61-7b 0 19 8003

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across partitions.
Hope this helps,
Vincent Figari
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998 09:24:57 +0100 Steven Arijs <[email protected]>
writes:
We're going to implement a failover scenario for our application.
Unfortunately, we also have to replicate the state of our failed
service
objects.
I've browsed the Forte site and found a TechNote concerning this
(TechNote 11074).
In this TechNote they talk about a service object that is responsible
for updating all backup service objects when needed.
It seems to me that when I implement that way, I will be creating a
lot
of overhead, i.e. I will be doing a lot of stuff several times.
What will be the effects on my performance ?
The way with the least performance loss would be to use an external
resource that is updated. But what if this external resource also
fails
Is there any one who has already implemented a failover scenario for a
service objects with state ?
Any help would be appreciated.
Steven Arijs
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Weblogic7/examples/clustering/ejb Automatic failover for idempotent methods ?

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          clustering.
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Sorry I meant to send this to the ejb newsgroup.
          dan
          dan benanav wrote:
          > Do any vendors provide for clustering with automatic failover of entity
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          > a reason why it is not possible?
          >
          > It seems to me that EJB servers should be capable of automatic failover
          > of entity beans.
          >
          > dan

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Dear All,
May I confirm if CSS can do active-active stateful failover? If so, is it any restriction? and any Cisco URL I can refer to?
Thanks a lot.
mak

what do you call active-active ?
There different ways to achieve active-active.
What we can do is 1 vip active on 1 CSS-A and standby on CSS-B and a 2nd VIP active on CSS-B and standby on CSS-A.
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CSS can handle quite a huge amount of traffic so I never saw the need for active-active.
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/ps792/products_configuration_example09186a00802206a3.shtml
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