[nsp] persistent dialing
Victor Sudakov
sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru
Thu Jan 9 11:32:16 EST 2003
Marcus Keane wrote:
> I assume this is a BRI? If you are worried about the routing protocol
This is an async line.
> using lots of bandwidth with flooding, adjacency forming etc., you can
> configure the routing protocol to never bring up an adjacency. Then all
> you have are hellos every 10 or 30 seconds(or whatever you choose).
>
> Or the newer versions of code have GRE keepalive support, so you could
Could you be more specific about it?
> use that to trigger the idle timer by building a bogus tunnel across the
> link.
>
> If you don't want to be reliant on user traffic triggering the idle
> timer, I'm not sure how many options you have that are operationally
> supportable.
It seems more feasible to look for a modem that can automatically dial a
remote site on powerup. Some modems have this feature.
> Marcus.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Sudakov [mailto:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru]
> Sent: 09 January 2003 14:35
> To: Marcus Keane
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>
> 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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