Command Reference Guide

3Com Router 5000 Family and Router 6000 Family standby interface ● 11
Command Reference
standby interface
Purpose Use the standby interface command to specify a physical interface to back up
the interface.
Use the undo standby interface command to remove the specified standby
interface.
Syntax standby interface type number [ priority ]
undo standby interface type number
Parameters type
Specifies the interface type.
number
Specifies the interface number.
priority
Specifies the priority of the standby interface. Valid
values are 0 to 255. (The greater the value, the higher
the priority.)
If not specified, the default is 0.
Default By default, no standby interface is specified.
Example Specify interface Serial 1/0/0 to back up interface Serial 0/0/0, and assign it the
priority of 50.
[3Com -Serial0/0/0] standby interface serial1/0/0 50
View This command can be used in the following views:
■ Interface view
Description You can configure multiple standby interfaces for a main interface. The order in which
they are used depends on the assigned priority. The standby interface with higher
priority is used first.