
Configuring Dial Services
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The router activates a standby circuit when:
• A primary circuit fails.
The router activates a hot standby circuit when the primary circuit fails. The
hot standby takes over data transmission. To determine whether a primary
circuit failed, the router relies on Breath of Life (BofL) messages for PPP
primary circuits and A-bit notification for frame relay primary circuits.
When you associate a PPP primary circuit with a hot standby circuit, the
router automatically enables BofL for the primary circuit, so be sure to enable
BofL on the other side of the PPP primary circuit. This does not apply to
frame relay primary circuits.
• A call is designated for the standby circuit.
The router activates a standby circuit only when the remote router calls the
host router over a standby circuit.
• You activate a standby circuit manually.
Typically, circuits at the remote site will be hot standby circuits, while at the
central site, they will be regular standby circuits. Configuring hot standby circuits
for the remote router means that the remote router monitors the status of its
primary connections, which is easier for the remote router than for the central
router because there are fewer connections.
Standby circuits support standard demand circuit features such as multilink,
unnumbered interfaces, dial-optimized routing, and outbound filtering.
Balancing Traffic Between a Primary Circuit and a Hot Standby Circuit
When a hot standby circuit is active, the routing protocol activates and finds an
alternative route to the destination. When the primary circuit recovers and resumes
data transmission, the routing protocol deactivates. This is referred to as a failback
to the primary circuit.
You can control the failback to the primary circuit manually or automatically. One
advantage of controlling failback is that you can delay the return of traffic to the
primary circuit. This lets the primary circuit stabilize before it resumes
transmission of critical data.
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