[nsp] persistent dialing

[jlewis at lewis.org]

In older IOS, I think I've done both the routing protocol trick (configure 
rip on the client...don't bother on the server) and even just setting up 
NTP should do IIRC.

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Josh Duffek wrote:

> If you use 12.2(4)T then you can use the command "dialer persistent" to make
> it do that.  Check here:
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios122/122newft/122
> t/122t4/ftdperst.htm
> 
> Josh
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marcus Keane" <mkeane at microsoft.com>
> To: "Victor Sudakov" <sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru>
> Cc: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:59 PM
> Subject: RE: [nsp] persistent dialing
> 
> 
> > I assume this is a BRI? If you are worried about the routing protocol
> > 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
> > 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.
> > 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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> > --
> > Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> >
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