CCNA LAB Practice - FRAME RELAY

Lab # 20

FRAME RELAY

Objective

Establishing a Frame Relay PVC connection. Frame Relay is a standard that defines the process for sending data over a public data network.

Frame Relay is a connection-oriented data link technology that is streamlined to provide high performance & efficiency. Frame Relay connections operate over virtual circuits.

A basic Frame Relay configuration assumes one or more physical interfaces, and LMI and Inverse ARP are running  on the remote routers. In this type of environment, the LMI notifies the router about the available DLCIs.

Diagram

Procedure

1.      Configuring & Assigning the IP addresses to the FR Clients (R1 & R2).

2.      Configuring the FR Switch.

3.      Verifying the Frame Relay Operation by commands.

4.      Verifying the connectivity of both FR Clients.

Configuration         

Step 1(A): Assigning the IP addresses to the FR Client Router R1.

R1(config)#interface serial 0

R1(config-if)#ip address 15.0.0.1 255.0.0.0

R1(config-if)#no shutdown

R1(config-if)#encapsulation frame-relay

R1(config-if)#end

Step 1(B): Assigning the IP addresses to the FR Client Router R2.

R2(config)#interface serial 0

R2(config-if)#ip address 15.0.0.2 255.0.0.0

R2(config-if)#no shutdown

R2(config-if)#encapsulation-frame-relay

R2(config-if)#end

R2(config-if)#exit

Step 2: Configuring the FR switch.

FR-SWITCH(config)#frame-relay switching

FR-SWITCH(config)#int s0

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#no ip address

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#no shutdown

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#encapsulation frame-relay

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#frame-relay intf-type dce

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#clock rate 64000

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#frame-relay route 102 int s1 201

FR-SWITCH(config)#int s1

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#no ip address

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#no shutdown

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#encapsulation frame-relay

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#frame-relay intf-type dce

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#clock rate 64000

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#frame-relay  route 201 int s0 102

FR-SWITCH(config-if)#end

Step 3(A): Verifying the Frame Relay Operation by commands.

show frame-relay pvc command displays the status of each configured connection, as well as traffic statistics.

The show frame-relay map command displays the DLCI-protocol address map entries, as well as information about the connection.

The show frame-relay lmi command displays LMI traffic statistics.

The show frame-relay route command displays the status of each configured virtual circuit connection, as well as their status and route to other interface.