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Chapter 8 Configuring a Dialed Backup Line
Configuring Dialer Services
Configuring the Physical Interface for the Dialer Interface
Perform the following steps to set up the physical port for the dialer interface:
1 Enter interface serial card / port to specify the interface.
2 Enter encapsulation ppp to set PPP encapsulation.
3 Enter dialer pool-member pool-number priority priority to assign the
interface as a member of the pool that the dialer interface will use.
Priority is an optional value you can configure to prioritize this pool-
member within the pool.
Configuring Interface as the Backup Dialer Interface
Perform the following steps to configure the port for the dialer backup
interface:
1 Enter interface serial card/port to specify the interface to back up.
2 Enter ip address ip-address mask to specify the IP address and
mask of the interface.
3 Enter backup interface dialer number as the backup interface.
4 Enter backup delay enable-delay disable-delay to set the interval
between the physical interface going down and the backup being
enabled, and between the physical interface coming back up and the
backup being disabled.
5 Enter backup time-range start-time end-time to set the time of day
the backup interface should be enabled and disabled.
The CLI commands shown below are those used to configure the example
shown in Figure 24.
Create interface dialer 1 to use dialer pool 6:
XSR(config)#interface dialer1
XSR(config-if<D1>)#encapsulation ppp
XSR(config-if<D1>)#dialer pool 6
XSR(config-if<D1>)#no shutdown
Configure backup serial port for dialing purposes: