
Dial-on-Demand Implementation Notes
117353-B Rev. 00
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How Standby Circuits Work
There are two types of standby circuits:
• Hot standby -- A hot standby circuit backs up a failed primary circuit. When
the primary circuit fails, the router activates the hot standby circuit to provide
another route to the destination. A hot standby circuit can connect to another
standby circuit, a demand circuit, or a demand circuit group.
Hot standby circuits can support the following types of primary circuits:
• Single leased PPP circuit
• PPP multilink circuit
• PPP multiline circuit
• Frame relay primary circuit that has a service record with only one PVC
Hot standby circuits can back up primary circuits on any slot, not just the slot
on which the hot standby circuit resides. For example, if a primary line on Slot
4 fails, the router can activate a standby connection from Slot 3.
• Standby -- A standby circuit has no relationship with the primary circuit. It
does not back up a primary circuit if that circuit fails. Instead, a standby
circuit answers incoming calls destined for it. A standby circuit can also carry
data when you activate it manually.
The router activates a standby circuit activates when:
• A primary circuit fails.
The router activates a hot standby circuit when the primary circuit fails. The
hot standby takes over data transmission. To determine if a primary circuit
failed, the router relies on Breath of Life (BofL) messages for PPP primary
circuits and A-bit notification for frame relay primary circuits.
When you associate a PPP primary circuit with a hot standby circuit, the
router automatically enables BofL for the primary circuit, so be sure to enable
BofL on the other side of the PPP primary circuit. This does not apply to
frame relay primary circuits.
• A call is designated for the standby circuit.
The router activates a standby circuit only when the remote router calls the
host router over a standby circuit or you activate the circuit manually.
• You activate a standby circuit manually.
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