playing (badly) with frame-relay

Apr 06, 2007 3 Replies

Have two routers back to back with a dce/dte cable; they communicate fine with just RIP. I've started to play with WAN protocols, beginning with frame relay, based on the Cisco article "back to back frame relay hybrid switching" ; as soon as I turn FR on the whole thing fails, in that I cant ping across the routers.



" show frame-relay lmi" does , however, report communication between the routers - I think I'm missing something here.....


show frame-relay lmi


LMI Statistics for interface Serial0 (Frame Relay DCE) LMI TYPE = CISCO



Invalid Unnumbered info 0 Invalid Prot Disc 0



Invalid dummy Call Ref 0 Invalid Msg Type 0



Invalid Status Message 0 Invalid Lock Shift 0



Invalid Information ID 0 Invalid Report IE Len 0



Invalid Report Request 0 Invalid Keep IE Len 0



Num Status Enq. Rcvd 123 Num Status msgs Sent 123



Num Update Status Sent 0 Num St Enq. Timeouts 14



Router#


Router#debug frame-relay lmi



Frame Relay LMI debugging is on



Displaying all Frame Relay LMI data



Router#



Router#


00:31:07: Serial0(in): StEnq, myseq 138


00:31:07: RT IE 1, length 1, type 1


00:31:07: KA IE 3, length 2, yourseq 139, myseq 138


00:31:07: Serial0(out): Status, myseq 139, yourseen 139, DCE up


00:31:17: Serial0(in): StEnq, myseq 139


00:31:17: RT IE 1, length 1, type 1


00:31:17: KA IE 3, length 2, yourseq 140, myseq 139


00:31:17: Serial0(out): Status, myseq 140, yourseen 140, DCE up


Router 2524


version 11.3



service timestamps debug uptime



service timestamps log uptime



no service password-encryption



!

hostname Router



!

enable password ah



!

frame-relay switching



!
!
!

interface Ethernet0



description test



ip address 192.168.4.1 255.255.255.0



!

interface Serial0



ip address 1.1.1.1 255.0.0.0



encapsulation frame-relay



no ip mroute-cache



no fair-queue



clockrate 64000



frame-relay map ip 1.1.1.2 101 broadcast



frame-relay intf-type dce



!

interface Serial1



no ip address



shutdown



!

router rip



network 1.0.0.0



network 192.168.4.0



!

ip classless



!

logging history informational



!

line con 0



exec-timeout 0 0



--More--


--------------


1601

aaa new-model



aaa authentication login vyt_m enable



enable secret 5 $1$xFU8$DgDuZDb/PU.3alP4S1Gao1



enable password ah



!
!

interface Ethernet0



ip address 192.168.1.4 255.255.255.0



no ip route-cache



!

interface Serial0



ip address 1.1.1.2 255.0.0.0



encapsulation frame-relay



no ip route-cache



frame-relay map ip 1.1.1.1 101 broadcast



!

router rip



network 1.0.0.0



network 192.168.1.0


Hi, perhaps you need to assign the DLCI to the interface.

e.g. int s0/0 frame-relay interface-dlci 102

regards, zenzippy

also,

show frame-relay pvc is a good command :)

regards, zenzippy

Turn off keepalives on both sides, assign the same DLCI on both ends. Assign the clock rate on the DCE end. (no keepalive, frame-interface dlci 101, clock rate 64000... etc). The keep alives are where the LMI information is sent... it will keep your connection down.

Worked last time I tried it.

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