The Road Goes Ever On wrote: > Dave, idle curiousity - in your opinion, are there circumstances in which > you would NOT want to run OAM?
I suppose if you configure an ATM interface with only one PVC and you don't subinterface, OAM would do little good, nor harm I might add. > > I forget the exact situation, but I was working with a customer on an issue, > and the customer brought up OAM, and my own reading suggested it wasn't a > bright idea. Might have been on an RLAN design - ATM DS3 at the host and DSL > at a number of remote sites ( work at home, IIRC ) Without specifcs I hate to speculate but low end DSL "routers" don't support OAM anyway. > > If OAM detects a failure on the ATM circuit, doesn't it shut down the > interface, requiring manual restart when the line comes back up? If so, OAM > is more of a carrier thing? I is definately not a carrier thing. The loss of OAM cells causes the subinterface, PVC, to go down though not in shutdowm state. This is very useful, even mandatory, when doing certain backup configs and HSRP tracking. Without OAM your subinterface is up regardless of the state of the connection on the other side of the PVC. The physical interface is indicative of the status of you connection to the ATM switch. OAM allows for the status of the PVC. Dave > > thanks > > Chuck > > ""MADMAN"" wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Your question is not very clear but OAM works fine and is quite >>simple to configure: >> >>interface ATM1/0.32 point-to-point >> ip address 1.1.1.2 255.255.255.0 >> pvc madman 1/32 >> oam-pvc manage All, >> >>>Any idea about ATM links with end-to-end support for OAM cells >> >>configuration >> >>>to detect remote equipment failure >>> >>>Thanks and best regards >>>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ >> >>-- >>David Madland >>CCIE# 2016 >>Sr. Network Engineer >>Qwest Communications >>612-664-3367 >> >>"Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it >>can do something to the people." -- Thomas Jefferson -- David Madland CCIE# 2016 Sr. Network Engineer Qwest Communications 612-664-3367 "Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people." -- Thomas Jefferson Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=70747&t=70715 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
