> I don't know if you can do this or not, but try setting the preference on
> dialout routes to 200, leaving the preference on the dialin routes at the
> default of 60.  You may have to have 2 seperate profiles for dialin and
> dialout.

I have. Basically the dialouts with 1 Max work fine. Now it's just
up to me implementing a 2nd one. The question is: HOW to set the
preference for the dialout-routes?

> This should cause the Max that recieves the callback to announce the route
> with a higher preference, causing the rest of your network to behave
> properly.
> 
> Worth a try anyways.

Indeed indeed. Thanks so far!
Sascha


> 
> ** -----Original Message-----
> ** From: sp at locus.tech.iphh.de [mailto:sp at locus.tech.iphh.de]On Behalf Of
> ** Sascha E. Pollok
> ** Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 2:40 PM
> ** To: Troy Settle
> ** Cc: ascend-users at bungi.com
> ** Subject: RE: (ASCEND) Multiple Maxen design question
> **
> **
> ** Troy, thanks for replying,
> **
> ** > Failing a multi-chassis solution, have you considered announcing your
> ** > dialout routes on the last max in your huntgroup (ie. the one
> ** least likely
> ** > to have all B channels in use).
> **
> ** There is actually no problems with dialing out. The problem is just
> ** with the routes advertised (or not) via OSPF. If the last max in the
> ** huntgroup dials out and the user calls back and gets logged onto let's
> ** say the 1st max, I don't get the IP subnet that the user get's assigned
> ** into the OSPF routing table but only the /32 announcement of the
> ** remote router's ip address. The Cisco-Router infront of the Maxen
> ** still see the /30, /29, /28 or whatever pointing to the dialout-max.
> ** The only route that is propagated via OSPF is the /32 host route although
> ** the user gets a whole subnet assigned. It seems that the Max the user
> ** dials into doesn't advertise the subnet-route because there is already
> ** a route within the OSPF domain (coming from the dialout-max). I tried
> ** raising the metric for the dialout-routes but that doesn't help anything.
> **
> ** <sigh>
> ** Sascha
> **
> ** >
> ** > ** -----Original Message-----
> ** > ** From: owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com
> ** > ** [mailto:owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com]On Behalf Of
> ** Sascha E. Pollok
> ** > ** Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 9:03 AM
> ** > ** To: Greg Daley
> ** > ** Cc: ascend-users at bungi.com
> ** > ** Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Multiple Maxen design question
> ** > **
> ** > **
> ** > ** > >Imagine the situation where there is a single Max
> ** > ** > >with 2xPRI (30 channels each). There is a primary
> ** > ** > >and backup radius-server for authentication
> ** > ** > >and accounting. In addition to authenticating callers
> ** > ** > >with Username/Password and/or Caller-ID, most of
> ** > ** > >the users get an IP assignment out of a pool. Some
> ** > ** > >callers are getting static ip assignments
> ** (Framed-Address/Netmask).
> ** > ** > >The Max is advertising it's dialup-routes via OSPF.
> ** > ** > >The pool gets summarized.
> ** > ** > >
> ** > ** > >Within Radius there are also some static routes with
> ** > ** > >dialup-profiles configured (customers with own mailserver
> ** > ** > >and thingies like that).
> ** > ** > >
> ** > ** > >All is working fine. Now imagine i'd like to add a 2nd
> ** > ** > >Max to the network due to lack of B-Channels. A 2nd
> ** > ** > >one is already mounted in the rack, the PRI's are almost
> ** > ** > >ready and will be reachable via the same number than
> ** > ** > >the current ones.
> ** > ** > >
> ** > ** > >Now problems arise. With only users dialing in and getting
> ** > ** > >pool or static IP assignments there would be no problem
> ** > ** > >because the Maxen advertise the IPs connected via OSPF.
> ** > ** > >The Maxen have different pools configured.
> ** > ** > >But what about dialout profiles? I could set the Max's name
> ** > ** > >in the static routes (on the radius-server), so that only
> ** > ** > >one of the Max's places calls but that wouldn't help
> ** > ** > >because if they dial in instead of getting called and they
> ** > ** > >connect to the non-dialing-Max, the "wanna-dial" Max
> ** > ** > >would still advertise the dialout-routes via OSPF and
> ** > ** > >we would have two identical routes within the OSPF domain.
> ** > ** >
> ** > ** > 	You can advertise a dialout route on one max,
> ** > ** > 	but have lower preference for that route than for
> ** > ** > 	the actively connected route, which is configured by
> ** > ** > 	radius.
> ** > ** >
> ** > ** > 	The route which will be preferred and propagated by ospf
> ** > ** > 	would be the "up" route.
> ** > **
> ** > ** Greg,
> ** > **
> ** > ** I read you answer once again and noticed that you are not
> ** > ** talking 'bout metrics but about preferences. I set
> ** > ** OSPF ASE Preference = 60 on both Maxen and set the metric
> ** > ** of the Dialout-Routes in Radius to some higher value (10).
> ** > ** What's happening looks good at first sight: The Ciscorouter
> ** > ** sees the route adv. by the Max1 (Max with dialout-routes)
> ** > ** with Metric 11. Now, when the user dials in on Max2
> ** > ** (w/o dialout-routes), the route on the Cisco changes
> ** > ** to the one with the lower metric (2) and all is working
> ** > ** fine. I was happy :-) Until I noticed problems with
> ** > ** users having not one single static IP Adress but
> ** > ** a subnet like in radius:
> ** > **
> ** > **         Framed-Address = 192.168.1.53,
> ** > **         Framed-Netmask = 255.255.255.252,
> ** > **         Framed-Route = "192.168.1.52/30 192.168.1.53 1",
> ** > **
> ** > ** The Max where the user dials in gets two routes. One
> ** > ** of the directly connected remote router (192.168.1.53/32)
> ** > ** and the rest of the subnet: 192.168.1.52/30 192.168.1.53.
> ** > ** But THAT 2nd route does not get advertised by the Max
> ** > ** where the user has dialed in. Perhaps because there is
> ** > ** a 2nd route looking similar (the dialout-route adv. by Max1):
> ** > **
> ** > **  max2% sh ip route 192.168.1.52
> ** > **
> ** > **  Destination        Gateway         IF       Flg   Pref Met
> **     Use   Age
> ** > **  192.168.1.52/30  192.168.1.53    wan18    rGT     60   1
> **     0     389
> ** > **  192.168.1.52/30  <max1's-IP>     ie0      *OG     60  10
> ** > ** 0    1224
> ** > **
> ** > ** You see that the 1st route is preferred (obviously because
> ** it's connected
> ** > ** to Wan18 and the metric is 1) but it won't get advertised!
> ** Here's that
> ** > ** the Max1 (Dialout Max) sees, while the user is connected to Max2:
> ** > **
> ** > **  max1% sh ip route 192.168.1.52
> ** > **
> ** > **  Destination        Gateway         IF       Flg   Pref Met
> **     Use Age
> ** > **  192.168.1.52/30  192.168.1.53      wanidle0 SG     120  10
> **      33 1252
> ** > **
> ** > ** The Ciscorouter is only seeing this dialout-route of Max1. I don't
> ** > ** know where to get any further.
> ** > **
> ** > ** Last night I sat 3h infront of them boxes and everytime I changed
> ** > ** something to OSPF and rebooted one, waiting 10 minutes
> ** after rebooting
> ** > ** until the Telco is again routing calls to this PRI, I fell asleep
> ** > ** on my desk for about 30 minutes, wasting 20 minutes time :-))) I am
> ** > ** really stuck here.
> ** > **
> ** > ** Any help is greatly appreciated!
> ** > **
> ** > ** Thanks!
> ** > ** Sascha
> ** > **
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