[nsp] persistent dialing

[Victor Sudakov]

Marcus Keane wrote:
> Victor,
> If you have a dialer-list that permits everything and you are running an
> active routing protocol on the link, the hellos will reset the idle
> timer so that the link will never go down.

In fact I need not run a routing protocol on that interface.
Running it for the sole purpose of bringing up the interface seems 
to be an overkill and waste of precious bandwidth.

> HTH,
> Marcus. 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Sudakov [mailto:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru] 
> Sent: 09 January 2003 13:59
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> 
> 
> Colleagues, 
> 
> I need to make a router dialout to a remote NAS no matter if there is
> interesting traffic to match a dialer list. I basically want it to start
> dialling out on powerup, always stay connected and redial until success
> every time it detects that PPP has failed.
> 
> How do I achieve this? Thanks a lot in advance.
> DDR all seems to be about bringing the link up when interesting traffic
> is detected or when another interface is down. I seem to be overlooking
> something obvious.
> 
> --
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN