Thursday, November 10, 2005

Dynamic Policy Based Routing PBR

PBR Support for Multiple Tracking Options [Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.3 T] - Cisco Systems

Dynamic PBR used to be an oxymoron. No more. This is way cool. I plan to use this to along side a Cisco Clean Access (CCA) solution we are putting in. We want to force some select traffic through a CCA box. However, for fiscal reasons we don't have a backup CCA box (Cisco does have a fault tolarant solution at this time we couldn't offord it) and we didn't want CCA box to be a single point of failure.

Enter tracking support for PBR. Now we can fail open, which is fine for now for us.

Cisco also supports tracking for HSRP and I may use that aswell.

Just too cool.

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