Your guess is 100% in place, in fact this is the only role of fast-idle
timeout.
"Ole Drews Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> When using a BRI interface as a backup interface for a serial interface,
the
> BRI interface goes into standby mode and cannot be used for anything else.
> However, if I make the BRI interface a member of a dialer pool and create
> two dialer interfaces for that pool to act as logical interfaces for the
one
> BRI interface, I can make the dialer interface 1 the backup interface for
> the serial interface, and use dialer interface 2 to communicate through my
> BRI interface while it's not being used as a backup.
>
> This is all too cool !!! - Now to the questions:
>
> 1) What happens if the WAN on the serial interface goes down and the
dialer
> interface 1 becomes active and then I try to use dialer interface 2?
>
> 2) What happens if I am using the dialer interface 2 when the WAN on the
> serial interface goes down and the dialer interface 1 wants to use the BRI
> interface?
>
> My own guess is that the normal rule for dialer interfaces / dialer pools
> takes effect regardless of the backup interface usage, so if a physical
> interface is in use by a dialer interface, the requesting dialer interface
> will have to wait until the fast-idle timeouts on the active dialer
> interface.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ole
>
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> RWR Enterprises, Inc.
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