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Re: (ASCEND) Pipeline 50 Q.


Would this have anything to do with the unit's idle timeout?  My Pipeline 
will log off after 2 minutes of inactivity... I'm thinking it might be
the DownPreference in the Pipeline... which is 120 seconds?  Any ideas?

My Radius profile has no effect on the idle timeout of my Pipeline 50... 
but, my profile works great when I dial in with analog... I've set it my 
profile... but, still... after 2 minutes of inactivity... my Pipeline will 
log off... I'm thinking it's a setting in the unit...? ...perhaps, the 
DownPreference?  ..any suggestions?

--Nolan


At 10:48 AM 10/5/97 EDT, Tim Basher wrote:
>> Connections->[name]->IP options->DownPreference=120
>> Connections->[name]->IP options->DownMetric=7
>> I've looked through the docs... but, it seems some of this isn't
documented.
>> What does DownPreference and DownMetric control in the Pipeline 50?
>
>Well, I looked through my documents and the release notes and could not
>find it either.  It sounds like someone needs to notify the technical
>writers they missed something.  [Yo! Kevin!]
>
>I can provide an educated guess that these are the Preference and Metric to
>use for the route when the connection is down (not connected).  It would
>appear that the default [up] Preference is 60 and the default DownPreference
>is 120.  The default [up] Metric is 1 and the default DownMetric is 7.
>
>> What does the 120 value mean? ...what does the 7 signify?
>
>Check the meaning of the Preference and Metric parameters in the Reference
>Manual for your Pipeline.
>
>The Preference is the "reliability" of the information associated with the
>route.  Routes learned from more reliable sources (or more desirable routes)
>have a lower preference (and are therefore more preferable).  Basically,
>if there is more than one source of information about a route (interface
>config, static route, RIP) the router will update the routing table with
>the information provided by the source whose preference is closer to zero.
>
>The Metric is the cost of using the link [in hops] - the higher the Metric,
>the higher the cost.  If there are two routes to the same destination, the
>packets will travel route with the lowest cost [Metric].
> 
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