Hi all,
With the standby statement under the backup-neighbor hierarchy when configuring a l2circuit traffic flows over both active and backup forwarding path, but the backup-neighbor drops traffic until certain types of failover happen where the backup-neighbor becomes the active one.
What happens if I leave the standby statement out of the configuration and the primary forwarding path fails? Does the backup-neighbor then become the active path, or is there a manual action required to get the same result?
The reason I'm asking is because I'm using the backup-neighbor configuration after maintenance to check if the backup-neighbor path comes up after moving the local tail carrier. Should the backup path come up, all old configuration gets wiped and our standard l2circuit configuration comes into play again.
Marijn