Frame-relay hub and spoke lab best practices.

From: Robert Watson (watson.robert@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2006 - 22:02:10 ART


I realize that most practice labs call for hub and spoke frame designs in
their labs.

Is there a general consensus as to when to....

Configure a frame-relay map to your own local interface ip and if so a
suggested dlci to pick?

Should you only do this when task calls for "make sure you can ping all
frame interfaces"?

Can you apply it anyway even if it doesn't call for so your tcl script runs
uninterrupted?

If it doesn't should you remember to remove the self directed map?

Is it ever ok to duplicate broadcasts up towards the hub from a spoke? Ie
spoke has 1 map to host and 1 map to other spoke on same dlci

When to use broadcast keyword? Always unless told not to or Never unless
required later (ospf or mcast issues)

Link local and global unicast mapping or one over the other when to do what
and which map would you enable multicast support with the broadcast keyword?

Per cco it appears that you simply have to map the link local in frame and
your show fram map will have an entry for both

All of these questions are so subjective that you can't really turn to cco
for answers.



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