Re: Dialer Watch

From: Tim Fletcher (tim@fletchmail.net)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 12:27:47 GMT-3


Excellent point. Having myself gotten an $1,800 ISDN bill at home several
years ago, it is definitely something to be aware of. I personally like
dialer watch for lab scenarios, but it can be dangerous in the real world.

-Tim Fletcher

At 12:09 AM 12/20/2002 -0500, Todd Veillette wrote:
>Exactly my point! Any Cisco listeners out here .
>Dialer watch is a solid backup for a 24/7 client
>but for 8x5x5 clients it is not.
>
>When the client gets the $500 bill for being up
>18 hours on a Sunday due to a DAX eating itself,
>it is not, "Great Job" that I typically hear in response.
>
>How about an option where the idle time out, after
>a dialer-watch event, sets a flag converting to DDR
>then clears the flag when the route comes back?
>
>-TV
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tim Fletcher" <tim@fletchmail.net>
>To: "Todd Veillette" <tveillette@myeastern.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:12 PM
>Subject: Re: Dialer Watch
>
>
> > Dialer watch doesn't work that way. Once it comes up it will stay up until
>there is another route. Interesting traffic is irrelevant. Usually I do not
>even define a dialer-group.
> >
> > It does however use the idle-timeout interval to determine how often to
>check the routes.
> >
> > -Tim Fletcher
> >
> > At 06:31 PM 12/19/02 -0500, Todd Veillette wrote:
> > >Along the same lines, dialer watch works great -
> > >EXCEPT I have yet to come up with a dialer watch
> > >solution that comes up when you lose your route(s)
> > >AND will go back down based on not having any
> > >interesting traffic over the route(s).
> > >
> > >Any Ideas?
> > >-TV
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Tim Fletcher" <tim@fletchmail.net>
> > >To: "rehan u nedaria" <rehannedaria@rediffmail.com>;
> > ><ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > >Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:47 AM
> > >Subject: Re: Dialer Watch
> > >
> > >
> > >> Rehen,
> > >>
> > >> That the way I've always done it. If you define interesting traffic,
>the
> > >> link can come up even if your route is still valid. So if you only want
>it
> > >> to come up when your route disappears, don't define interesting
>traffic.
> > >>
> > >> -Tim Fletcher
> > >>
> > >> At 12:31 PM 12/19/2002 +0000, rehan u nedaria wrote:
> > >> >Hi Guys
> > >> > A query on dialer watch-list.I was going through a scenario
> > >> > where they had asked me that if a specific network goes down say
> > >10.0.0.0
> > >> > then the isdn should trigger.
> > >> >
> > >> >I used dialer watch list where i did not used the diler-group command
>for
> > >> >intresting traffic.This works fine.
> > >> >
> > >> >Is this configuration without creating the intresting traffic is
>right.
> > >> >
> > >> >Regards
> > >> >Rehan
> > >> >.
> > >> .
> > >.
.



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