OT: xDSL hardware

Wed Jul 14 11:14:15 UTC 2004

Sam Stickland wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Eric Kagan wrote:
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>>>>Is anyone aware of a WIC card that will work with the lower end Cisco
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>>gear
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>>>>(1700 or 2600 series) that will allow me to terminate an ADSL or
>>>>preferably an SDSL line directly on the router?  The idea being that the
>>>>router is then aware of link up/down status...
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>>There is a WIC-1ADSL for 1700/2600. Not sure about an SDSL WIC.  We have
>>done a few T1/ADSL and ADSL/ISDN setups and it seems to work fairly well.  I
>>also spoke to a computer integrator that claimed they were working with
>>Cisco to develop a ping like action for determining if the next hop was
>>alive and if not set the interface down so it would failover to secondary
>>interface / route.  I assume it would be a 12.3(x) ish release.
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>I believe you're talking about this, available in 12.3(8)T.
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>Reliable Static Routing Backup Using Object Tracking
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>http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios123/123newft/123limit/123x/123xe/dbackupx.htm
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>Sam
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Yes but is 12.3(8)T available for the 1700/2600 routers?  IIRC, not.

Joe