We have a T1 circuit that is not ours and must contact our partners in this project to inform them of any failures (we do the monitoring - PING local router's serial interface), at which point people at their end begin troubleshooting. For this, they often ask us to enable a loopback at our end in order to help them identify where the problem may exist. Unfortunately, this happens often (flaky circuit) and it would be nice if we didn't need to jump through any hoops every time they need to troubleshoot their stuff... hence, having a loopback respond at all times sure would make life easier.
I've found the "PPP loopback ignore" command (on the controller I believe), which would allow loopback requests to be responded to by the router... yet, I have no idea if this would affect regular traffic when enabled.
Thoughts on this anyone??
Thks,
Al
