80CHAPTER 7: ADVANCED CONFIGURATION OF PORTS AND PATHS

Table 17 Bandwidth Management Features for Dial-Up Lines (continued)

Bandwidth

 

 

Management

 

 

Feature

Description

Location

Dial number list

A dial number list allows the software to

 

select a phone number from a list of

 

destination phone numbers associated with

 

a port or virtual port. Numbers in the dial list

 

are selected sequentially. The dial number list

 

is required.

Procedure included in scenarios

More information: See Chapter 9

Bandwidth-on-

When the system detects traffic congestion

See page 91

demand

on a port, you can enable

 

 

bandwidth-on-demand to automatically

 

 

bring up more lines either from a dial pool or

 

 

from another path assigned to the same

 

 

port.

 

 

You specify the bandwidth that a port

 

 

should operate at normally, then define the

 

 

maximum amount of bandwidth above this

 

 

setting that the port can have.

 

 

 

 

Disaster recovery

If the primary line fails, the bridge/router can

See page 92

 

use a reserved dial-up line as back-up.

 

 

 

 

ISDN on the WAN Port (43x, 44x, 53x and 54x)

This section describes three scenarios using the built-in ISDN port:

Scenario 1: Using Each B Channel Separately

Scenario 2: Using Both B Channels Together

Scenario 3: Connecting to Multiple Destinations

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