Cisco IOS Dial Technologies Configuration Guide, Release 12.2SR

Customer Profile Idle Timer Enhancements for Interesting Traffic

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Feature History

This document describes the Asynchronous Line Monitoring feature feature. It includes the following sections:

• Feature Overview
• Supported Platforms
• Supported Standards, MIBs, and RFCs
• Configuration Tasks
• Configuration Examples
• Command Reference
• Glossary

Feature Overview

Before Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)T, only the dialer idle timer could be reset for interesting traffic on a dialer interface. The Asynchronous Line Monitoring feature feature available in Cisco IOS Release 12.2(4)T supports a PPP idle timer based on interesting traffic for dialer interfaces. (Existing PPP idle timer behavior is not changed when traffic is not classified.) New commands and functionality provided with this feature also address idle timer issues for virtual access dialup network (VPDN) sessions, which use virtual access (projected) interfaces and rely on the PPP idle timer mechanism.

The Resource Pool Manager (RPM) per-customer profile dialer idle timer function works with Multilink PPP (MLP) and Multichassis Multilink PPP (MMP), providing that the master bundle interface is not a virtual access (projected) interface. For virtual access interfaces such as those used in a VPDN or with MMP where the dialer idle timer cannot be used, you can now classify the IP traffic that resets the PPP idle timer. A named access list is also supported.

Additionally, because RPM customer profiles are applied on a per-Dialed Number Identification Service (DNIS) basis and allow for configuring a per-customer profile dialer idle timer, the Asynchronous Line Monitoring feature feature associates idle timers based on call type and DNIS.

The idle timer implementation in the Asynchronous Line Monitoring feature feature specifies that for calls terminated on a network access server, a virtual access interface is cloned from the virtual template. This virtual access interface is linked to a physical interface on which is running a dialer timer. If the PPP idle timer is configured on the virtual template or provided by an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) per-user interface configuration, the result is two idle timers, as follows:

• A PPP idle timer on the virtual access interface.
• A dialer idle timer on the physical interface.

Neither the dialer idle timer nor the PPP idle timer will run when the idle timer in the per-user configuration is set to 0. When the per-user idle timer is set to some value besides 0, that value overrides all local idle timer configurations.

Supported Platforms

See the next section for information about Feature Navigator and how to use this tool to determine the platforms and software images in which this feature is available.

Platform Support Through Feature Navigator

Cisco IOS software is packaged in feature sets that support specific platforms. To get updated information regarding platform support for this feature, access Feature Navigator. Feature Navigator dynamically updates the list of supported platforms as new platform support is added for the feature.

Feature Navigator is a web-based tool that enables you to quickly determine which Cisco IOS software images support a specific set of features and which features are supported in a specific Cisco IOS image.

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Feature Navigator is updated when major Cisco IOS software releases and technology releases occur. As of May 2001, Feature Navigator supports M, T, E, S, and ST releases. You can access Feature Navigator at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/go/fn

Supported Standards, MIBs, and RFCs

Standards

None

MIBs

None

To obtain lists of supported MIBs by platform and Cisco IOS release, and to download MIB modules, go to the Cisco MIB website on Cisco.com at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml

RFCs

None

Configuration Tasks

See the following sections for configuration tasks for the Asynchronous Line Monitoring feature feature. Each task in the list is identified as either required or optional:

• Configuring an RPM Template to Accept Dialer Interface Timers (required)
• Configuring a PPP Idle Timer Based on Interesting IP Traffic (required)
• Configuring the Idle Timer in a RADIUS Profile (optional)
• Verifying the Asynchronous Line Monitoring feature (optional)

Monitoring and Maintaining the Asynchronous Line Monitoring feature

To monitor and maintain the Asynchronous Line Monitoring feature feature, use the following EXEC commands:

Configuration Examples

This section provides the following configuration examples:

• Two Templates with Different Dialer Idle Timer Settings Example
• Resetting the Dialer Idle Timer with Interesting Traffic Example
• Network Access Server Extended Configuration Example

Command Reference

The following commands are introduced or modified in the feature or features documented in this module. For information about these commands, see the Cisco IOS Dial Technologies Command Reference at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/dial/command/reference/dia_book.html . For information about all Cisco IOS commands, go to the Command Lookup Tool at http://tools.cisco.com/Support/CLILookup or to the Cisco IOS Master Commands List .

New Commands

• ip idle-group
• dialer-group (template)
• dialer idle-timeout (template)
• ppp timeout idle (template)

Modified Command

• dialer-list protocol

Glossary

interesting packets —Dialer access lists are central to the operation of DDR. In general, access lists are used as the screening criteria for determining when to initiate DDR calls.