[c-nsp] Reliable static routes and 12.2S

[Rodney Dunn]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:45:50PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:38:12PM -0500, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> > For a DSL type environment you usually are not running
> > a routing protocol over the links so what do you want
> > to react?
> 
> Link status (or being able to tie static routes into BFD).

That's the one part I was thinking about was static routes.

Link status is almost surely a no go.

> 
> Just something to reliably notice that part of the "usual" something-
> bridged-over-something-without-end-to-end-keepalives customer links
> isn't working anymore, *without* having to run a full-featured routing
> protocol with the CPE.

With statics I can see it.


ie: default on the CPE with dial backup upon primary failure.

Issue would probably become scalability.

> 
> gert
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