Trying to help colleague create backup route to my network

Scott_Van_Arts1 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:54:08 GMT

Hello,

My colleague manages a small clinic network that attaches to our network to reach a medical records provider. He normally reaches us through a routed WAN connection. Since his larges clinic is onsite with me he has added a separate direct fiber connection to my network. The goal is to normally get to the medical records on our site over the routed connection. If the WAN goes down, he would like his clinic users to be able to reach those records over the direct connection.

We have connected his local Cisco switch to my WAN switch, a VSP 7400 series. All my routing is done in a core network of VSP 8400s. The 7400 is basically just a L2 switch to provide connectivity to our WAN. After making the connection I am unable to ping the IP address of his local switch over this direct connection. He enabled LLDP on his Cisco switches and I can see the LLDP neighbor with the correct IP. We are a static route shop because there are very few topology changes on our network. I added a secondary static route to the IP address I see as an LLDP neighbor. But since I can't ping it, it's obviously not working.

Shoot any follow-up questions my way if I haven't been clear enough. How should we go about troubleshooting this?

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Trying to help colleague create backup route to my network