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Another variation of this type of...
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routing between two different interfaces where
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would be to use the
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Now, Backup Interface originally
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where we would have one primary link that's maybe
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and then, some sort of either
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where we would only want to use the dial
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or it was exceeding
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The reason behind this...
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is that these analogue or digital
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were typically pay-per-use.
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So, you wouldn't wanna be using it as your
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but if it's your only option to get out of the network,
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This would then imply, if we were to
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for this feature, the Backup Interface,
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if we go to the Configuration Guides,
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this is actually gonna be
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If we go to the Dial
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Dial Back-up Configuration,
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Configuring Dial-Backup for Serial Lines,
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So, Dial-Backup with the Dialer Profile, this
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and we're the PPPoE client.
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The only difference is that the
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would be going on
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as opposed to the physical link.
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So, there are some additional minor
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besides just using the
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You get to find the
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So, if we say that our
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a particular threshold,
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So, Backup Load...
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Enable Threshold and
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it says that, "This is over a 5-minute
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This is what is controlled...
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at the link level...
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by the...
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if we go to the...
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the main serial interface,
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the Load Interval command.
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So, if we were to say,
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it means that we're looking at
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Where by default, it is
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If we were then to say,
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this is the primary link,
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I'll say here that serial...
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0/1/0 is my Backup Interface.
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So, from a routing point of view,
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this means that I'm gonna send
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but if that link is down,
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Now, with this configuration, since only one of
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it's independent of either the routing metric
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As long as router 5 has some routing
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and then some back up routing information pointing out the backup link.
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it doesn't matter what the
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So, my previous floating static
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except that it's kind of a backwards logic,
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is actually the one with the...
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higher administrative distance,
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so, this would be our primary route.
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Simply because the first route...
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cannot perform route recursion.
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If we look at the Show
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we see that serial 0/1/0
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which means that its
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So again, the key point here...
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is that a route can only be
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if the interface that it recurses to
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has its line protocol in the up state.
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If the line protocol is down,
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then, no routes can
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If we look at the result
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and Show IP Route...
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Static,
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we see that the route installed is the
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So, if I were to do a traceroute to...
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router 4's loopback,
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that's gonna go over
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Now, if the frame relay link's
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we would then see the
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until the primary link comes back.
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Now, one way we could
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would be to change the
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because again, it's the LMI that determines whether the
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If I were to shut the interface
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so, I'll just say Shutdown,
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this is not going to trigger
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If I Show IP Interface Brief,
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the Backup Interface says that...
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"I'm in the standby mode,
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so I'm not gonna automatically use this."
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This feature was there as a prevention
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in dial backup scenarios
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where you manually shutdown
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and then, it would cause your analogue,
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and then...
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at the end of the building cycle, you get
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In our case, it's not
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we're assuming that the
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It doesn't really matter
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But you could run into this situation
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and they're very low speed,
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You could do some sort of dial-backup
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but the key point of this is that if we're trying
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shutting down the primary
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We would have to figure out some way
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where the link status is either...
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up with the protocol down,
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not administratively down.
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So, if our primary link is up,
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when we Show IP Interface Brief,
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this means that the Backup
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If I were to go to the
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and say, "The frame relay
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So, it's something that's not the Cisco type.
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We should see...
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that when we look at the
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once we receive a number
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the line protocol of the main
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We could also here look
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Debug Backup.
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This will show us if were trying to do any type of
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It will tell us what's the state of the
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So, in this case, it says, "Now,
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So, the secondary interface
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Or, excuse me, secondary
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So now, it says "The event happen where
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Serial 0/1/0 is now up",
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which means that routes pointing out there...
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can now be installed in the routing table.
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So, if we look at the Show IP Route Static,
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we have the route of the point-to-point link,
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and if we trace the router 4's loopback,
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we could see, we're routing over that secondary
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So, pretty straightforward configuration here, the only
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we have the Backup Interface command,
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Then, we have some
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whether it's static or dynamic
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that is eventually gonna get us to route
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and then, the secondary
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So, Backup Interface doesn't
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We still need some other protocol to figure
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In this case, we're doing it with...
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just two static routes.
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Now, if I were to set the administrative
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it's still not going to affect anything.
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Because we're choosing
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simply based on which interface is active.
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Is the frame relay up-up?
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Or is the frame relay up-down or down-down,
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So now, we're gonna have some problems
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We'll see issue with this implementation.
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Anytime where the line protocol status
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is not a good indication of actual
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We'll see, this is the case where
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and any type of Metro Ethernet.
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Okay, or basically, any Ethernet that were going to
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The case for Ethernet
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is that if we have router 1,
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and router 2
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that are physically connected over Ethernet.
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So, we have a gigabit Ethernet link that
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So, there's across sort of
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If we had a second design where router 1
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and router 2 is likewise,
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G 0/0 goes to G 0/0,
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G 0/1 goes to G 0/1.
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The problem in this type of design now...
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is that if router 2...
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has an interface failure,
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it is not gonna update the line
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For the first topology at the top,
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if router 2's interface goes down,
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it implies then that router 1's
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Because there's a physical back to
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But anytime there is someone else to
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which in this case,
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then the end to end reachability...
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is not gonna be indicated
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In the case of frame relay,
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this would be if one side of the link is up-up,
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but the circuit status is down,
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the router will have no way to detect that.
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So here, we have router 4,
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and router 5
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connected over frame relay.
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|
Router 4 is using a point-to-point sub-interface.
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s0/0/0.1.
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Point to point.
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|
Router 5 is using the
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Then, we have the circuit between them,
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On router 5, this is 504.
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We saw them on router 5,
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and said that the frame relay LMI type...
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was something that switch did
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0:13:53
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You could also say, Q933A.
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0:13:58
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This then means that router 5
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0:14:02
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which would then send the
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0:14:10
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So, the physical link is up, but there's
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0:14:15
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However, if router 4's
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so, router 4 sees its interface as...
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0:14:29
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down-down,
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or up-down.
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|
Okay, or even admin down, if we
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The main interface status on
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If we look at the Show
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0:14:48
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router 5 will know that the
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but that is not going to update the line
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0:15:00
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So, this would mean a
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0:15:03
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Let's say that we want the same type of design
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0:15:08
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But I want to take into
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0:15:12
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where router 5 looses
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0:15:15
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or router 4 looses connectivity to the switch.
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Where in either case, I'm able to
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0:15:25
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If we were to put the Backup
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that would only take into account the case
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It would not take into account any case where
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or if there was a failure on router 4's end.
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0:15:48
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However, if I were to configure the
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and put it on the sub-interface,
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|
the sub-interface's line protocol status is directly
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0:16:06
|
So, this means that if the PVC status...
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is active,
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|
the link...
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is up-up.
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But if the PVC status is inactive,
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or deleted,
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then, the link is gonna be down.
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The line protocol is gonna be down.
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|
If the line protocol is be down,
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|
it means that the subnet
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cannot get installed into the routing table,
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which then in turn means that any routes that recurse
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0:16:50
|
So, there is a difference in this design where
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If we put it on router 5,
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it's only gonna work in
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On router 4, it should theoretically
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assuming that the LMI status actually is a good
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0:17:11
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Now, we can see this in the command line,
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and...
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0:17:18
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Shut the frame relay interface down,
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0:17:25
|
so, we now know that router...
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0:17:28
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5 and 4,
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|
they're not gonna be able to reach each other over
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0:17:35
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But if we look at router 5 and
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or the Show IP Interface Brief,
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0:17:50
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notice that serial 0/0/0...
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0:17:54
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Actually, it is down here...
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0:17:59
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Let's see... This is probably...
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0:18:07
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Because I changed the LMI.
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So, on the link, let's say,
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We'll let the router automatically detect it.
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And also, I'll remove those other mappings.
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0:18:25
|
these loopback addresses.
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0:18:45
|
So, we see now, router 5's link status is up.
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And the line protocol...
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0:18:49
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Line protocol in the frame relay is up,
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|
which then means that the Backup
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0:18:58
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If we Show IP Interface Brief,
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the frame relay interface is up-up,
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|
which means, the Backup
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The problem now is that if we
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the final destination,
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we're not able to reach it,
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0:19:26
|
If we look at the Show Frame Relay PVC,
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and we're looking at circuit number 504,
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|
we could see, 504 is inactive.
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0:19:49
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It's inactive because the switch is saying,
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0:19:55
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But the problem is, since router 5 is still
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it cannot set the line
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Because in reality, there's other
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We would not want the case where
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then it would mean we can't
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Because these other circuits are up.
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|
So again, if we look at the
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Static.
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Now, our Backup Interface scenario is failing.
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0:20:43
|
So now, let's try it on the other end.
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0:20:46
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We'll say, No Backup Interface Serial 0/1/0.
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0:20:51
|
And on router 4,
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0:20:55
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I'll bring the frame relay interface up.
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0:21:01
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Then, on our frame relay sub-interface.
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0:21:04
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So, if we Show IP Interface Brief,
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0:21:09
|
this sub-interface is serial...
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0:21:14
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0/0/0.1.
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0:21:23
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So, it's a point-to-point sub-interface, the only thing we have
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applied is just the IP address and the circuit number.
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We don't need to worry
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We don't need to worry about inverse ARP,
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0:21:35
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On the sun-interface,
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we'll say that our Backup Interface is the...
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0:21:44
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physical point-to-point serial that goes to router 5.
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0:21:47
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Which is as 0/1/0.
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0:21:50
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Now, we can see, that's in standby mode.
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0:22:00
|
So, the primary link...
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0:22:03
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is up-up. This is the sub-interface.
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|
The Backup Interface is in standby mode.
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0:22:16
|
So now, let's look at the case where...
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|
router 5 looses connectivity.
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0:22:24
|
Or if we had access to the switches, we could
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or shut one of the
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In this case, I'm just gonna shut
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0:22:38
|
So, on router 5, we'll say that the
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0:22:47
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Now, this of course is gonna cause
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0:22:51
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because the...
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0:22:54
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primary link is no longer there.
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0:22:56
|
It means that I cannot...
|
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0:22:59
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I cannot install route for it.
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0:23:02
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But notice now that the
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We see now, the secondary link in installed.
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0:23:12
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If we try to send traffic
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0:23:16
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we could see it goes through.
|
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0:23:18
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If we look at router 4,
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0:23:21
|
it says that, "Serial 0/1/0 came up."
|
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0:23:26
|
And it really doesn't tell us why, but if
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0:23:32
|
we can see now that
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0:23:35
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The frame relay sub-interface.
|
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0:23:40
|
The reason why is that if we look at the...
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Show Frame Relay PVC,
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and look at the DLCIs.
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All of the circuits that are
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which in this case is just a single circuit,
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The status is not active.
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If it is either inactive or deleted,
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it means that the
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Since we have the Backup Interface
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this then means that no
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router 4 should be able to detect this.
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And then, fail over to the backup link.
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So, there's really no
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It's more of just a design issue
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that when we apply the Backup
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it should be on some device that is able
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Router 5 cannot properly do that,
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because it has a multipoint interface
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Now, the same would be true if
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For a multipoint sub-interface,
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if all circuits assigned are not in the active
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At least one of them is...
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in the active state, then,
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So, if we had a case where...
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router 5...
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had...
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the connection to all of the spokes,
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that goes to router 1, router 2,
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router 3,
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and router 4.
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If we were to use a sub-interface here,
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now, we know there's multiple DLCIs so that means
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If router 5 runs into the case that every
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then, the line protocol of the multipoint
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So, as I mentioned in
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design-wise, if you were to choose how
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your first choice would be to use
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The reason why is that it simplifies
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and also, it should be in theory.
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A good indication of the
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Your next choice would then be
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because likewise, the multipoint
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is based on the underlying
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Unfortunately, the case that
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is when LMI is not end to end between the routers.
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A typical case for this in today's networks...
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is if router 4 has frame relay on the edge.
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So, router 4 is the customer edge,
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and it's connecting to some provider edge router.
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Then, we're going to the cloud.
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Coming out on another provider edge router,
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and going to router 5.
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In most real network designs today,
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the last hop link would be running frame relay.
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But the core of the network would not.
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This would actually be MPLS.
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So, what happens is that these two PE routers,
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PE1 and PE2,
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they're forming a Layer 2 VPN...
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using the...
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using the Any Transport over
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which basically is taking the frame relay
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frames as they come in.
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And then, encapsulating them inside IP.
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When we do this, you loose the
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So, if theoretically, there was a failure
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router 5 and router 4, they're not
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Where this is also applicable...
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like I mentioned before would
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So, if an Ethernet link is
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the link status on one side is not gonna
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So, this means that when you are
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If you're using Ethernet as just
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you should take the first design
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In the second design where you're going
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it means the line protocol of one router...
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does not reflect the line
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Now, we'll see, there are
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There is a media independent Layer 2 protocol
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that was specifically invented to fix this problem,
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which is called, "Bi-directional
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So, BFD is the same logic as frame
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or the ATM Operation and
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But with BFD,
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you could run it o Ethernet, you could
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you could run it over frame relay.
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It's independent of the underlying media.
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So again, with the problem we saw
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is that if the line protocol status in one side...
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is not a good representation of the
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some of these failure scenarios will
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