ISIS over ISDN

From: Jason Cash (cash2001@swbell.net)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 23:22:35 GMT-3


Is it feasible to run ISIS over an ISDN link? I tinkered around and got it
to work, but now when my primary link recovers (S0), the clns neighbor is
not removed.

R5 was configured to 'dialer watch' 172.16.137.0/24, but with my original
config, ISDN connectivity was established but no routes were learned. So I
threw is onto R5:

interface BRI0

 ip address 170.1.201.1 255.255.255.252

 ip router isis

 encapsulation ppp

 dialer map ip 172.16.137.0 name User_C broadcast 8358661

 dialer map clns 49.0001.1921.6800.2002.00 name User_C broadcast

The problem is that once the ISDN link goes down, ISIS still keeps it's
neighbor over the link. Is there some type of "demand circuit" technology
for ISDN?

I stumbled upon this solution when (from R5) I was unable to ping any IPs on
the watched route:

R5#

interface BRI0

 ip address 170.1.201.1 255.255.255.252

 ip router isis

 encapsulation ppp

 dialer map ip 172.16.137.0 name User_C broadcast 8358661

 dialer map clns 49.0001.1921.6800.2002.00 name User_C broadcast

 dialer map ip 170.1.201.2 name User_C broadcast 8358661

 dialer load-threshold 10 outbound

 dialer watch-group 1

!

dialer watch-list 1 ip 172.16.137.0 255.255.255.0

dialer watch-list 1 delay route-check initial 60

==============================

r5#ping 172.16.137.1

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.16.137.1, timeout is 2 seconds:

...

Success rate is 0 percent (0/3)

What is the benefit of 'watch groups' if you need an individual map
statement for ewach host on the subnet? Is there a way to do a range for a
dialer map?



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