Re: Frame Relay home lab question

Is frame relay switching now supported on subinterfaces?

On 11/20/09, Steve Di Bias <sdibias_at_pacbell.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having some issues setting up a home lab for Frame Relay and I'm hoping
> some of you gurus can help me out here. If the routers and sub-interfaces
> look familiar I'm going off of IPExpert labs...
>
> For the Frame Relay switch I'm using a Cisco 3725 which has two VWIC-2MFT-T1
> cards installed. For the routers I have 1 Cisco 2612XM and a Cisco 2620,
> each router has a WIC1-DSU-T1 card installed.
>
> I made two T1 crossover cables using pins 1-2 and 4-5 which are reversed on
> the other end. To test the cables I plugged them directly into WIC cards on
> some other spare routers and brought up the interfaces without issue. At
> this point I thought I would connect the routers to the frame switch and see
> what happens...
>
> On the frame switch I enabled frame relay using the "frame-relay switching"
> command and issued the following commands on the VWIC-2MFT-T1 cards to
> create the serial interfaces
>
>
> controller T1 0/0
> framing esf
> linecode b8zs
> channel-group 0 timeslots 1-24
> !
> controller T1 0/1
> framing esf
> linecode b8zs
> channel-group 0 timeslots 1-24
>
> Now this created the following serial interfaces which I configured as
> follows
>
> Serial0/0:0
> Serial0/1:0
>
> interface Serial0/0:0
> no ip address
> encapsulation frame-relay
> logging event subif-link-status
> logging event dlci-status-change
> clockrate 56000
> no frame-relay inverse-arp
> frame-relay intf-type dce
> frame-relay route 204 interface Serial0/1:0 402
>
> interface Serial0/1:0
> no ip address
> encapsulation frame-relay
> logging event subif-link-status
> logging event dlci-status-change
> clockrate 56000
> no frame-relay inverse-arp
> frame-relay intf-type dce
> frame-relay route 402 interface Serial0/0:0 204
>
> On the two routers I configured the interfaces as follows
>
> R2
>
> interface Serial0/0
> no ip address
> encapsulation frame-relay
> !
> interface Serial0/0.24 point-to-point
> ip address 150.100.24.2 255.255.255.0
> frame-relay interface-dlci 204
>
> R4
>
> interface Serial0/0
> ip address 150.100.24.4 255.255.255.0
> encapsulation frame-relay
> keepalive 10
> frame-relay interface-dlci 402
>
> And this isn't working :(
>
> I checked the lights on the WIC's and they have CD lights with no alarms and
> the interfaces are up / protocol down
>
> The output from show frame pvc or map on either router isn't so good either
>
> R4#show frame pvc
>
> PVC Statistics for interface Serial0/0 (Frame Relay DTE)
>
> Active Inactive Deleted Static
> Local 0 1 0 0
> Switched 0 0 0 0
> Unused 0 0 0 0
>
> DLCI = 402, DLCI USAGE = LOCAL, PVC STATUS = INACTIVE, INTERFACE = Serial0/0
>
> input pkts 0 output pkts 0 in bytes 0
> out bytes 0 dropped pkts 0 in pkts dropped 0
>
> out pkts dropped 0 out bytes dropped 0
> in FECN pkts 0 in BECN pkts 0 out FECN pkts 0
> out BECN pkts 0 in DE pkts 0 out DE pkts 0
> out bcast pkts 0 out bcast bytes 0
> 5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
> 5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
> pvc create time 00:02:07, last time pvc status changed 00:02:07
> R4#
>
> So, I'm pretty stuck here.
> Thanks in advance with any help you can provide me here!
>
> -Steve Di Bias
>
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Received on Fri Nov 20 2009 - 15:13:09 ART