02-10-2006 07:02 AM
Hi,
I'm managing many Homeoffices connected wit h a 836 without any problems. My local provider sometimes has problems with their realms in userid's, so I thought I could create a second dialer interface configured with a different (e.g. call by call) account.
But everytime I do this, the 836 only connects to the last dialer interface. When I set it to shut it never dials the first one. Also changing the accounts from 0 to 1 lets me only dial the second dialer. I've tested it on 12.3T and 12.4T. With, and without CEF and most dialer-watch examples, Everything doensn't work.
Here's a sample config:
interface ATM0
bandwidth 160
no ip address
no atm ilmi-keepalive
atm ilmi-pvc-discovery
dsl operating-mode annexb-ur2
pvc 1/32
pppoe-client dial-pool-number 1
!
!
[...]
interface Dialer0
ip address negotiated
ip mtu 1492
ip nat outside
ip virtual-reassembly
encapsulation ppp
ip tcp adjust-mss 1300
dialer pool 1
dialer-group 1
no cdp enable
ppp authentication pap callin
ppp pap sent-username XXX@XXX.de password xxxx
ppp ipcp dns request
ppp ipcp wins request
!
interface Dialer1
ip address negotiated
ip mtu 1492
ip nat outside
ip virtual-reassembly
encapsulation ppp
ip tcp adjust-mss 1300
dialer pool 1
dialer-group 1
no cdp enable
ppp authentication pap callin
ppp pap sent-username ZZZ@ZZZ.de password xxxx
ppp ipcp dns request
ppp ipcp wins request
!
[...]
dialer-list 1 protocol ip permit
Is there something I forgot? Thanks
Mase
02-13-2006 07:15 AM
It would be nice to know how you arranged ip routing for this setup. The router chooses the outgoing interface primarily based on the routing table.
if you had something like: ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 interface dialer 1, I would consider it logical for the router to behave as described.
Regards,
Leo
02-14-2006 12:51 AM
Hi Leo,
thanks for you answer! I've set 0.0.0.0 to dialer 1 with metric 10 and 0.0.0.0 to dialer 0 with metric 20. My thought was that Cisco will router to dialer 0 automatically when dialer 1 changed to down. Disabling the metric will result in a packetloss of 50% because the Cisco wants to send the packets over both lines.
Is there another way to solve the routing issue?
Thanks!
02-14-2006 02:10 AM
The dialer is software-constructed interface that is always in a state of up-spoofed. The router simply used the route with the best metric.
I am afraid that the issue cannot be solved using static routes as they will never be able to reflect the actual availability of the ISP.
You should make the switch-over by hand.
Regards,
Leo
02-14-2006 04:48 AM
Isn't there another way, like replacing Dialer If's with VirtualTemplates? So I also can't use dialer-watch with 2 Dialer If's?
Thanks,
Mase
02-14-2006 07:45 AM
I am afraid there will be little other options.
You probably shouldn't bother too much as all existing connections will die anyway when there is a switchover to another dialer. This is because the existing nat translations will be invalid on the other dialer. This also implies that you will be reconnecting using a different IP which is equivalent to a new session when seen from the connected Internethost.
Regards,
Leo
02-14-2006 07:54 AM
I don't want to use it for 24h disconnects. My first DialUp provider sometimes has problems with his infrastructure and the connections is down for about half an hour. So I want to keep the downtime as short as possible and connect to another one. It's ok if the clients lose their connections for a short time, but I can't dial in (over ISDN) to all customers and activate the second dialer connection.
Thanks,
Mase
11-07-2018 04:58 PM
Hay Guys,
I know this post is quite old. but I thought i might share this because it could potentially help someone else who has the same problem.
I think if you configure "ppp ipcp route default" under the main dialer it will inject a default route to the global table. when dialer is offline it will remove it. Then you can have a static default route with a higher admin distance and it will kick in.
hope this will be helpful.
Cheers
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