Automatic Failover

Startouch is working on our main radio link doing some config changes remotely.

This was a good test to see if I had our cisco router setup correctly to fail over to the backup link, when the primary link went down.

It didn’t work.  So obviously I don’t have this setup correctly.  I thought the magic was in the routing area:

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 1.2.3.4
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 5.6.7.8 20

1.2.3.4 is the primary link, and 5.6.7.8 is the backup, and the “20” after the backup I thought said to use this if the primary went down.

But, this didn’t work.  Looking into why, but for now, just needed to go into the router, do a config terminal, then swap those 2 lines, and put the “20” on the 1.2.3.4 and blank out the 5.6.7.8.