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Conference irocz::common_brouters

Title:Digital Brouters Conference
Notice:New common-code brouter family: RouteAbout, DECswitch 900
Moderator:MARVIN::HARTLL
Created:Mon Jul 17 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:929
Total number of notes:3736

764.0. "slow line as standby in ip-network ?" by COPCLU::JENS () Wed Feb 19 1997 04:51


	Hi !


	 A customer of my would like the following configuration seen below.
	He will be running IP-routing only. Now he wants to have the two 2mb
	lines connected to SITE-1 to be used normally. If 1 of the 2 2mb lines
	goes down, he wants to switch to the 64kb line automatically. The 64kb
	line should normally be in standby.    


	Network configuration.


	SITE-1		    			SITE-2
	Routeabout acces EW     	        Routeabout Access EW
        |        |				 	 |         |
	|	 -------------2MB-line--------------------         |
        |                                                          |
        |                                                          |
        2MB-line                                                   64kb-line
        |                                                          |
	|		SITE-3                                     |
	|	        Routeabout access EW                       |
        |                         |        |                       |
	--------------------------         -------------------------
				



                                                                    
	1) Is it possible to have this configuration using RIP ?

	2) Is it possible to have the 64kb line as standby ?

	3) If RIP not possible then OSPF/IS-IS ?


	Best regards
	and thank you 
	for any input

	Jens Petersen, MCS-Copenhagen
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764.1MARVIN::CLEVELANDWed Feb 19 1997 08:3012
    What do you mean by 'standby'?  If it is a 64K leased line that is
    always available (ie, not dialup) then you just need to cost it
    correctly (ie, a static route with higher cost than the 2M lines). 
    Then it would only be used if the high speed line became unavailable.
    
    If you mean that it would only be activated (ie dialed) when the
    primary is down, then it gets a little trickier.  I don't know if WAN
    reroute can help here (Brian)?  But it is possible to have the router
    dial up a connection if the local interface supports V.25bis (ie,
    analog modem or ISDN TA).
    
    Tim
764.264kb leased lineCOPCLU::JENSWed Feb 19 1997 09:1610

	Thank you for the reply !


	The 64 kb line is a leased line. SO the only way is to use static
	routes ?


	Jens 
764.3Yes - WRS uses dialupMARVIN::CROWLESeek not answers; live the questionsWed Feb 19 1997 11:339
    re .2:
    
    >The 64 kb line is a leased line. SO the only way is to use static
    >routes ?
    
    Yes, I'm afraid so.  WAN Restoral/Reroute requires a dialup connection
    for its backup line.
    
    Brian
764.4MARVIN::CLEVELANDThu Feb 20 1997 05:309
    I'd phrase it as 'luckily, you can just use static routes!'.  But I'm
    old fashioned that way.  You want the backup line to get full routing
    information exchanged as well?
    
    You can run OSPF and set the cost of the backup circuit higher such
    that it would never be used unless the primary was down.  Or a similar
    setup with IS-IS...I think only RIP is out because it will do pure
    hop-count and hence your backup line would get used even when the
    primaries were up.