Associating A Resource Pool With The Demand Interface; Defining A Connect Sequence - HP 7102dl - ProCurve Secure Router Configuration Manual

Configuring Backup WAN Connections
Configuring Demand Routing for Backup Connections
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Associating a Resource Pool with the Demand Interface

Rather than using a bind command to create a persistent, one-to-one connec-
tion between the demand interface and a physical interface, you use the
resource pool command to link the demand interface to one or multiple dial-
up interfaces. The resource pool command creates a resource pool and
associates it with the demand interface. Each demand interface can be asso-
ciated with only one resource pool.
To create a resource pool and associate it with the demand resource, enter:
ProCurve(config-demand 1)# resource pool <poolname>
Replace <poolname> with the name of the resource pool that this demand
routing interface will use to originate or answer calls.
This resource pool is empty until you assign backup interfaces to it.

Defining a Connect Sequence

You must configure a connect sequence to specify:
the telephone number that the demand interface dials to connect to the
other site
the type of dial-up connection to establish
When the ProCurve Secure Router detects interesting traffic and no connec-
tions are currently established to carry this traffic, it uses a connect sequence
to try to establish a connection. This process is called an activation attempt.
You can configure more than one connect sequence for a demand interface.
For example, you may want to configure more than one connect sequence if
the main office has more than one dial-up line that you are using for backup.
Then, if one ISDN line is in use, the ProCurve Secure Router can dial another
line to establish a connection. You may also want to configure more than one
connect sequence to connect to a different router at the main office. Then if
one router at the main office is down, the router at a branch office can still
connect to the main office.
To configure a connect sequence, enter the following command from the
demand interface configuration mode context:
Syntax: connect-sequence <sequence-number> dial-string <string> [<resource-
type>] [busyout-threshold <value>]
Replace <sequence-number> with a number between 1 and 65535 to identify
this set of connection instructions.