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Chapter 7 Configuring Frame Relay
Frame Relay
Configuring the Serial Interface for a Frame Relay Connection
Follow these steps to configure the serial interface for Frame Relay packet
encapsulation.
Verifying Your Configuration
You can verify your configuration to this point by confirming that a permanent
virtual circuit (PVC) is active on the Frame Relay line, as follows:
Step 1 Wait 60 seconds after entering the encapsulation frame-relay command.
Step 2 From privileged EXEC command mode, enter the show frame-relay pvc
command. You should see output similar to the following:
Router# show frame-relay pvc
PVC Statistics for interface Serial0 (Frame Relay DTE)
DLCI = 17, DLCI USAGE = LOCAL, PVC STATUS = ACTIVE, INTERFACE =
Serial0.1
input pkts 45 output pkts 52 in bytes 7764
out bytes 9958 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
pvc create time 00:30:59, last time pvc status changed 00:19:21
Step 3 Confirm that the “PVC STATUS=ACTIVE” message appears in the command
output, as shown in the example.
Step 4 Record the number shown in the “DLCI=” message. (In this example, the number
is “17.”) You use this number to finish configuring the Frame Relay interface.
Command Task
Step1
interface Serial0 Enter configuration mode for the serial
interface.
Step2
encapsulation frame-relay Set the encapsulation method on this interface
to Frame Relay.
Step3
no shutdown Enable the configuration changes on this
interface.