From: Mark Lewis (markl11@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 11:03:33 GMT-3
Hi,
Try setting the timeout at the dte end to 13/14 secs (with the switch (dce!)
still set to 15).
Hope that helps,
Mark
CCIE#6280
>From: "Bell, Mark (Houston)" <m.bell@wilcom.com>
>Reply-To: "Bell, Mark (Houston)" <m.bell@wilcom.com>
>To: "CCIE Study Group (E-mail)" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: frame relay timers
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:20:30 -0500
>
>I am working on a scenario that requires the frame relay links in the
>network to be configured with a 15 second timeout. I used the "keepalive
>15" on the interface to do this. However, on the DCE side (the router
>acting as the frame switch), no matter what I set the keepalive timer to
>(10, 15, or 20 seconds), I always end up with almost every keepalive
>interval resulting in both a timeout and a successful response. The reason
>I noticed this is because at one point, the "frame switch" said that line
>protocol was down but I was still passing traffic.
>
>It has not seemed to cause any problems as far as PVCs going inactive but
>it
>is strange to see all these LMI timeouts. Below is the output of "show
>frame lmi" for the interface that has the most timeouts. Any ideas as to
>why this might be happening?
>
>LMI Statistics for interface Serial0/0:1 (Frame Relay DCE) 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. Rcvd 61 Num Status msgs Sent 61
> Num Update Status Sent 0 Num St Enq. Timeouts 53
>
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>Kenneth Mark Bell, CCNP, NNCSE
>Network Engineer II m.bell@wilcom.com
>Williams Communications Solutions
>t: (713) 307-7254 p: (713) 912-2276
>
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