[72471] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: xDSL hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Tue Jul 13 21:56:34 2004
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:55:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040713180146.P6269@shell.inch.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> I'm wondering if there are any ISPs here that are Covad partners that have
> found a need to terminate a DSL line alongside a T1 for backup.
Yes. Not doing it currently, but when we did we used a FlowPoint 2200 in
routed mode into the second ethernet port on a 2e/1serial 25xx. , with a /30
between the FP and the Cisco.
> Is anyone aware of a WIC card that will work with the lower end Cisco gear
> (1700 or 2600 series) that will allow me to terminate an ADSL or
> preferably an SDSL line directly on the router? The idea being that the
> router is then aware of link up/down status...
Covad business class is SDSL. But - if the DSL line is backup to the T1,
does the router 'need' to know that the DSL line is down ? I believe we just
used weighted static routes. If the T1 was up use that, otherwise use the
DSL. If both are down -- it won't really matter, will it ? :-) (Unless you
are relying on SNMP monitoring from this router internally for an alarm).
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