Hardware Bypass Switchover

When switching from normal operation to hardware bypass or from hardware bypass back to normal operation, traffic may be interrupted for several seconds. A number of factors can affect the length of the interruption; for example, copper port auto-negotiation; behavior of the optical link partner such as how it handles link faults and de-bounce timing; spanning tree protocol convergence; dynamic routing protocol convergence; and so on. During this time, you may experience dropped connections.

You may also experience dropped connections due to application identification errors when analyzing connections midstream after the return to normal operations.