Re: (ASCEND) Ascend Max T1 and FR backup

["Tim Brown" <tim@sumter.net>]

I also found this:

Ethernet>Connections>CONNECTIONNAME>Session Options>Backup=

The paramter reference says "If the primary connection is unavailable, the
MAX will automatically divert traffic to the backup connection. When the
primary connection is restored, traffic again uses the primary connection."
Is anyone using the "Backup" setting for the connection profile and if so
has it worked as advertised? Peter, do you have a BRI profile specified as
the "Backup" in this manner for your T1 profile? Thanks.
Tim Brown
SumterNet, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Lalor <plalor@infoasis.com>
To: ascend-users@max.bungi.com <ascend-users@max.bungi.com>
Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Ascend Max T1 and FR backup


>>From: "Tim Brown" <tim@sumter.net>
>>
>>Does anyone use ISDN or mulitlink analog as a backup for your T1 and Frame
>>Relay connections to you Maxen. We thought we could just do it through the
>>max, but our T1 and PRI dial-up trunks are provisioned in-bound only and
>>reject any outbound calls. We've have had problems with three different
>>backhaul circuits recently (all different telcos) and thought it might be
>>time to put some sort of low bandwidth backup (say 128K or so) in place as
a
>>solution. An automatic backup would be ideal(i.e. all traffic on FR
circuit,
>>FR circuit goes down, traffic starts moving on backup ISDN or Analog
>>line(s). Thanks in advance for any suggestions and/or comments.
>
>Well, the first thing you'll need is some kind of ISDN line that you
>can actually place outbound calls on. If you can't get that turned on
>on your PRI, you could try a BRI, either on your Max or on some
>little router like a Pipeline.
>
>I have had ISDN backup working with some success in the past, either
>with a T1 being backed up by a BRI, both connected to the same
>Pipeline 130, and also with a BRI plugged into a Pipeline 75 backing
>up a T1 plugged into a Max 4000.
>
>The latter was a bit problematic for me, either with the link not
>coming up automatically or not dropping afterwards, but I think you
>should be able to get it going properly with some fiddling with route
>preferences.
>
>When you decide how you're going to tackle it, tell the list and
>we'll try to help.
>--
>
>Peter Lalor           Infoasis
>plalor@infoasis.com   http://www.infoasis.com/
>
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