Establishing a WAN Connection with Frame Relay

LAN Extension into a WAN

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Frame Relay Overview

Connections made by virtual circuits Connection-oriented service

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Frame Relay Terminology

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Selecting a Frame Relay Topology

Frame Relay default: NBMA

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Resolving NBMA Reachability Issues

Split horizon can cause problems in NBMA environments.

Solution: subinterfaces A single physical interface simulates multiple logical interfaces.
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Frame Relay Address Mapping

LMI receives locally significant DLCI from the Frame Relay switch. Inverse ARP maps the local DLCI to the remote router network layer address.
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Frame Relay Signaling

Cisco supports three LMI standards:

Cisco ANSI T1.617 Annex D ITU-T Q.933 Annex A
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Stages of Inverse ARP and LMI Operation

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Stages of Inverse ARP and LMI Operation (Cont.)

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Configuring Basic Frame Relay

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Configuring a Static Frame Relay Map

Configure a static Frame Relay map when:

A Frame Relay peer does not support Inverse ARP You want to control broadcast traffic across a PVC You want to have different Frame Relay encapsulations across PVCs
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Configuring Frame Relay Subinterfaces

Point-to-point Subinterfaces act like leased lines. Each point-to-point subinterface requires its own subnet.

Point-to-point is applicable to hub-and-spoke topologies.

Multipoint Subinterfaces act like NBMA networks, so they do not resolve the split-horizon issues. Multipoint can save address space because it uses a single subnet. Multipoint is applicable to partial-mesh and full-mesh topologies.

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Configuring Frame Relay Point-to-Point Subinterfaces

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Configuring Frame Relay Multipoint Subinterfaces

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Verifying Frame Relay Operation

RouterX# show interfaces type number

Displays information about Frame Relay DLCIs and the LMI

RouterX# show interfaces s0 Serial0 is up, line protocol is up Hardware is HD64570 Internet address is 10.140.1.2/24 MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1544 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec, rely 255/255, load 1/255 Encapsulation FRAME-RELAY, loopback not set, keepalive set (10 sec) LMI enq sent 19, LMI stat recvd 20, LMI upd recvd 0, DTE LMI up LMI enq recvd 0, LMI stat sent 0, LMI upd sent 0 LMI DLCI 1023 LMI type is CISCO frame relay DTE FR SVC disabled, LAPF state down Broadcast queue 0/64, broadcasts sent/dropped 8/0, interface broadcasts 5 Last input 00:00:02, output 00:00:02, output hang never Last clearing of "show interface" counters never Queueing strategy: fifo Output queue 0/40, 0 drops; input queue 0/75, 0 drops <Output omitted>
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Verifying Frame Relay Operation (Cont.)

RouterX# show frame-relay lmi [type number]

Displays LMI statistics

RouterX# show frame-relay lmi LMI Statistics for interface Serial0 (Frame Relay DTE) 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. Sent 113100 Num Status msgs Rcvd 113100 Num Update Status Rcvd 0 Num Status Timeouts 0

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Verifying Frame Relay Operation (Cont.)

RouterX# debug frame-relay lmi Frame Relay LMI debugging is on Displaying all Frame Relay LMI data RouterX# 1w2d: Serial0(out): StEnq, myseq 140, yourseen 139, DTE up 1w2d: datagramstart = 0xE008EC, datagramsize = 13 1w2d: FR encap = 0xFCF10309 1w2d: 00 75 01 01 01 03 02 8C 8B 1w2d: 1w2d: Serial0(in): Status, myseq 140 1w2d: RT IE 1, length 1, type 1 1w2d: KA IE 3, length 2, yourseq 140, myseq 140 1w2d: Serial0(out): StEnq, myseq 141, yourseen 140, DTE up 1w2d: datagramstart = 0xE008EC, datagramsize = 13 1w2d: FR encap = 0xFCF10309 1w2d: 00 75 01 01 01 03 02 8D 8C 1w2d: 1w2d: Serial0(in): Status, myseq 142 1w2d: RT IE 1, length 1, type 0 1w2d: KA IE 3, length 2, yourseq 142, myseq 142 1w2d: PVC IE 0x7 , length 0x6 , dlci 100, status 0x2 , bw 0

Displays LMI debug information

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Verifying Frame Relay Operation (Cont.)

RouterX# show frame-relay pvc [type number [dlci]]

Displays PVC statistics

RouterX# show frame-relay pvc 100 PVC Statistics for interface Serial0 (Frame Relay DTE) DLCI = 100, DLCI USAGE = LOCAL, PVC STATUS = ACTIVE, INTERFACE = Serial0

input pkts 28 output pkts 10 in bytes 8398 out bytes 1198 dropped pkts 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 10 out bcast bytes 1198 pvc create time 00:03:46, last time pvc status changed 00:03:47

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Verifying Frame Relay Operation (Cont.)

RouterX# show frame-relay map

Displays the current Frame Relay map entries

RouterX# clear frame-relay-inarp

Clears dynamically created Frame Relay maps, created by using Inverse ARP

RouterX# show frame-relay map Serial0 (up): ip 10.140.1.1 dlci 100(0x64,0x1840), dynamic, broadcast,, status defined, active RouterX# clear frame-relay-inarp RouterX# show frame map RouterX#

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Visual Objective 8-1: Establishing a Frame Relay WAN

WG A B C D E F G H Router s0/0/0 10.140.1.2 10.140.2.2 10.140.3.2 10.140.4.2 10.140.5.2 10.140.6.2 10.140.7.2 10.140.8.2

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Summary
Frame Relay PVCs are identified with DLCIs, and the status of the PVCs are reported via the LMI protocol. Frame Relay point-to-point subinterfaces require a separate subnet for each PVC, and multipoint subinterfaces share a single subnet with frame relay peers. To display connectivity with the Frame Relay provider, use the show frame-relay lmi command. To display connectivity with the Frame Relay peer, use the show frame-relay pvc and show frame-relay map commands.

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