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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.
Set the traffic loads for enabling and disabling the secondary circuit
Location: Main
ª Configuration
ª WAN Set up
ª Remote Site Set-up
ª Edit Remote Site
ª Activation Set-up
ª Threshold Set-up
ª up threshold
ª up stability timer
ª down threshold
ª down 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).
Enable BACP
Location: Main
ª Configuration
ª WAN Set up
ª Remote Site Set-up
ª Edit Remote Site
ª Protocol Set-up
ª BACP Set-up
ª BACP
ª enable
ª call mode
ª 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.