Cisco 836

hi everybody

i know that the ISDN port of the cisco 836 (ADSL over ISDN router)
provides ISDN dial backup and out-of-band management. can this router
be also employed as an ISDN router? or is the dial backup feature
supposed to be used only for the management of the router itself?

bests,
max

 

Hello,
you can use any interface as you like ;
the atm for adsl, the isdn for dialup/ddr or backupinterface;
we are using on the atm to connect to adsl and the isdn to another small
office ....
kind regards
Alex

 

thanks a lot.
~max

 

It appears to be a perfectly normal BRI interface you can tweak into
everything you could tweak a 1603's BRI or a WIC-1B.

No, that is just marketing gibberish. In fact, dial backup is the
one thing that is *NOT* supported fully in plain 12.3, as the
"backup interface" command set is missing from the IP loads on the
entire 8xx product line (yet feature navigator pretends it would be
there). There appears to be a special feature set that contains it,
though (in 12.3(something)XM or somesuch, it is even part of the IP
load again).