Applications

Bandwidth On Demand

The router may be set to activate its secondary link when the load on the primary link exceeds a user-defined threshold.

7Set the traffic loads for enabling and disabling the secondary circuit

Location: Main

ÄConfiguration

ÄWAN Set up

ÄRemote Site Set-up

ÄEdit Remote Site

ÄActivation Set-up

ÄThreshold Set-up

Äup threshold

Äup stability timer

Ädown threshold

Ädown stability timer

The up and down stability timers are the delay times that the primary link must be above the threshold before the secondary is activated or below threshold before it is brought down. This prevents activation or deactivation of the secondary link due to momentary peaks or drops in traffic.

Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP) may be used to negotiate the link activation between partner routers (BACP must be used if the partner router is not another router).

7

Enable BACP

 

 

Location: Main

 

Ä Configuration

 

Ä WAN Set up

 

Ä Remote Site Set-up

 

Ä Edit Remote Site

 

Ä Protocol Set-up

 

Ä BACP Set-up

 

Ä BACP

 

Ä enable

 

Ä call mode

 

Ä local or partner

Call mode determines which router originates the call to bring up the second link.

If BACP is not used, the partner routers will use proprietary negotiations to determine which router is to activate the second link.

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Black Box LR5100A-T, LR5200A-R2 manual Bandwidth On Demand, Enable, Local or partner

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