Frame Relay in 5 Minutes

Frame Relay is packet switched WAN technology for transporting Data across Connection oriented Virtual Circuits using Public Data Networks (PDN). its high performance alternative to overly reliable / slow X.25 Wan Protocol. It have no Error Recovery but have smart flow control (fecn becn). It can support up to T3 line (44.736 Mbps)

In 1984 FRAME RELAY started to develop Frame Relay deliver variable size data frames to multiple WAN site. Multi Access is the most obvious difference between Frame Relay and Leased lines. Leased lines are used as access link of Frame Relay.

In 1990 FRAME RELAY CONSOLING was created by following four companies. 1 CISCO 2 STARTDACOM 3 NORTEL 4 DEC. (AKA: GANG OF FOURs) to standardize the Frame Relay this consortium start working Later ANSI & ITU-T also like the idea.
DTE –> Data Terminating Equipment
DCE–>Data Circuit Terminating Equipment


NOTE: Router opperate on Layer 3 and Switch operates on Layer 2. when Frame RelayNetwork a Router is working as a Frame relay switch then its operating on Layer 2.

L.M.I some LMI type is required between DTE and DCE (Switch). LMI autosense enabled in IOS 11.2 & greater. 1 LMI exists per serial Interface.

Data Link Connection Identifier. (DLCI)
In header there is a single DLCI field. No Source or Desitnation field like LAN addresses.
LOCAL DLCI
Global DLCI
A Practical Way to identifiy between Global and Local DLCI is if two Virtual Circuit terminate at a DTC and a single DLCI is shown, its most probably is GLOCBAL DLCI. If one DLCI is shown per VC then it is depicting Local DLCI.

FRAME RELAY PACKET consist of 2 Bytes. .
6 Bits of First Bytes are called High Order Bits
4 Bits of Second Bytes are called Low Order Bits

DLCI number consist of 6+4 Bits of high and low order bits

7th Bits is CR (Commited RATE) — First Byte
8th Bit is EA——————————-

5th Bit is FORWARD EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION (FECN) — Second Byte
6th Bit is BACKWARD EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION (BECN) — Second Byte
7th Bit is Discard Eligibility—————————————————————— Second Byte
8th Bit is EA————————————————————————————–Second Bytes

Plz note that FECN-BECN is always set by (DCE) Frame Relay Switch and Discard Eligibility is set by Sending Router

Broadcast are not supported over a framerelay network so this is done in 2 steps.

1. IOS sends copies of Broadcast accross each VC u instruct.
2. Router Places these Broadcast in Different Ques then the ordinary user traffic.

TYPE OF CONFIGURATION———-SPLIT HORIZON IS
No Subinterfaces—P2P——————Enable
No Subinterfaces Multi Point———-Disabled
Subinterfaces——-P2P——————Enable
Subinterfaces Multi Point————–Disable
if)#ip split horizon
if)#no ip split horizon
Address Mapping
1 Static Config Mapping
2 Dynamically Mapping

Dynamic Mapping use a process called INVERSE ARP. each router announces its layer 3 addresss + DLCI to its adjacent Routers. INVERSE ARP is enabled by default at 11.2 and greater versions unless P2P subinterfaces are used.

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