[c-nsp] Dot1q Interface detect switchport failure

[Sam Stickland]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Rodney Dunn wrote:

> You would write an offline script that does it for you.
> Every 30 seconds telnet in and ping the next hop.
> If the next hop doesn't respond add the backup route.
> Repeat it and when the next hop comes back add the
> route back.

Just as an aside, a collegue of mine made his own device (about the size 
of a small matchbox) that plugs into the console port of a cisco and does 
this (as well as removing slower links from working MLPPP bundles and 
reinserting them if a defined amount of 'faster' are down).

Sam