From: Daniel Cisco Group Study (danielcgs@imc.net.au)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 07:08:01 GMT-3
Thanks to all for your help.
I new that there had to be a way.......
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Silvio Nunes [mailto:silvio_98@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 28 May 2003 11:07
To: Daniel Cisco Group Study; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Dialer Watch Technology Flaw ????
Hi,
There is a command to configure a delay for initial check of watched route after boot:
# DIALER WAtch-list 1 delay Route-check initial X, where X is the time in seconds
Regards,
>From: "Daniel Cisco Group Study" <danielcgs@imc.net.au>
>Reply-To: "Daniel Cisco Group Study" <danielcgs@imc.net.au>
>To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: Dialer Watch Technology Flaw ????
>Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 07:54:00 +1000
>
>I came across a "feature" in Dialer watch today...
>
>R1(Spoke)---------R2(Hub)
>
>R1 uses ISDN as backup for its main link to the Hub site. Backup is
>configured using dialer-watch and it works very well.
>
>R1 watches a route, and brings up the ISDN when the route disappears. So >far so good.
>
>However, if I reboot R1, and the main link to the hub fails at the same
>time, dialer watch never brings up the ISDN link once the router finishes >its boot sequence. The reason for this (I guess) is that when the router >reboots, it is watching a route which has never existed (as far as the
>router knows). Therefore dialer watch does not bother to bring up the
>backup link.
>
>Some of you may think that the chances of this scenario occurring is quite >slim. However, it did happen to me this morning! It is also quite
>conceivable that someone may decide to "reboot" the router is an effort to >restore the main link...... If they do this, then bye bye backup.....
>
>Has anyone come across this before? Is there a workaround? Can I turn this >feature off? (but still use dailer watch).
>
>Daniel
>
>
>
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