
Configuring Dial Services
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Creating Dial Backup Circuits
To create a PPP backup circuit, you designate a single leased circuit, leased PPP
multiline circuit, or leased multilink circuit as a primary circuit. If the primary
circuit fails, the router activates a backup circuit to continue transmitting data.
To configure frame relay backup circuits, skip this section and go to Chapter 11.
To configure PPP backup circuits:
Site Manager Procedure
You do this System responds
1. In the Configuration Manager window
choose
Dialup
.
The Dialup menu opens.
2. Choose
Backup Circuits
. The Backup Circuits menu opens.
3. Choose
PPP
. The Primary Circuit Definition window
opens, which lists the leased circuits that
you have configured.
4. Select a leased circuit name and click on
Cct Type
.
The Circuit Options window opens.
5. Set the
Circuit Type
parameter to
Primary
. Click on
Help
or see the
parameter description on page A-65.
6. Set the
Backup Pool ID
parameter to the
ID of the backup pool that you want this
circuit to use then click on
OK
.
Click on
Help
or see the parameter
description on page A-66.
You return to the Primary Circuit
Definition window, which displays the
defaults for each parameter. Site
Manager also adds the buttons Apply,
Schedule, and Phone Out.
7. Repeat steps 3 through 6 to configure
more primary circuits.
8. Keep the Primary Circuit Definition window
open and go to the next section,
“Specifying the Backup Mode.”
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