[AusNOG] Adding Routes via Custdata (Telstra)

[Barrie Hall]

Ryan,

Drop me a note with some more detail at barrie.j.hall at team.telstra.com and
I will get this sorted for you.

Regards,
Barrie


On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Ryan Tucker <Ryan.Tucker at rgtech.com.au>wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> Sorry to swing a little towards the consumer side, but no one at Telstra
> business support seems to be able to answer this question, or even
> understand what I'm talking about.
>
> I have an office with 2 telstra business broadband services, one Ethernet
> and one DSL. I plan to use the ability to add routes in custdata to use
> these two connections to provide redundancy/multihomeing for a public
> subnet (provided by Telstra) for the office. The Ethernet service will be
> the primary, the dsl will be the backup.
>
> In custdata, the "add route" page for Ethernet services allows you to set
> the route as Low or Normal priority, however the "add route" page for DSL
> connections does not let you set a priority.
>
> My question is, if I set a normal priority route to this subnet via the
> Ethernet service, and also add a route to the subnet via the DSL (where I
> can't set a priority), which route will have the higher priority? Are
> routes on DSL lower by default? Will this work to fail over to the DSL if
> the Ethernet goes offline?
>
> Alternatively, is there some other Telstra number I can call where they
> won't ask me what "route" means?
>
> Thanks in advance, and sorry again for the peasant noise.
>
>
> Ryan.
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