changing virtual-access interface description

[ilkerkaya]

hello,

we have a ppp over atm link connected router with dialer 0 interface and virtual-access1 clone of it because of ppp connection.You can see the configuration below;

interface Dialer0
 description VAE_DSL_primary
 ip address negotiated
 ip mtu 1300
 encapsulation ppp
 dialer pool 1
 ppp chap hostname xxxxx@xxxxx
 ppp chap password 7 xxxxxxxxxxx
 ppp ipcp dns request

Descriptions of both di0 and vi1 interface are same not as a matter of course.We need just one interface description as "VAE_DSL_primary" on the router because of monitoring purposes.Virtual-Access interface creates a problem there with its behaviour.

Di0                            up             up       VAE_DSL_primary
Di1                            admin down     down     
Lo100                          up             up       vfnet_sa
Vi1                            up             up       VAE_DSL_primary

I've read some in Cisco website to see if it's possible to make virtual-access1 interface with a different description from dialer interface with every session,but couldn't find one.Maybe one of you have an idea on it?

Best Regards,

İlker

[ryancisco01]

try this

int di0

no desc

wr

reload

int di0

description VAE_DSL_primary

wr

​Vi1 shouldn't pickup the description now.

[ilkerkaya]

didn't work as guessed.i think this is a problem for ios c1900-universalk9-mz.SPA.154-3.M1.bin.we will try to update ios because we've noticed all 5 locations have this same ios version.

[Mohammed al Baqari]

You won't be able to change it. Virtual access is a clone of the dialer interface. Any change on dialer interface will be replicated automatically on virtual access.
 

[ilkerkaya]

yes but the description part should have an exception.for newer ios versions it's like that,virtual access interface doesn't clone the description of dialer interface.