On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:25:44PM -0500, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>
> Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 07:36:11AM -0800, Eliot Lear wrote:
> > >
> > > At 09:24 PM 2/22/2002 +0100, Jesper Skriver wrote:
> > >
> > > > > int Serial0
> > > > > encap hdlc
> > > > > down-when-looped
> > > >
> > > >I know, but that needs to be configued in both ends, and as it's not the
> > > >default, it's likely not to be configured on the CPE device ...
> > >
> > > Neither is PPP.
> >
> > The customer will never get the link up if he/she doesn't
> > configure PPP, he/she will get link up if the link is configured
> > for HDLC but they havn't configured 'down-when-looped'
>
> The customer's failure to configure "down-when-looped" on his end will
> not adversely affect the behavior of "down-when-looped" on your end.
No, but the service will fail, as the traffic will not fallover
to the backup link.
> But this argument is really pedantic and silly. Can we call it quits?
> Please?
Ok - but I wanted to correct the above mistake.
/Jesper
-- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: FreeBSD committer @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-)One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
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