RE: Frame-Relay question

From: Jay Hennigan (jay@west.net)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 07:12:36 GMT-3


On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Alsontra Daniels wrote:

> Wow! I completely missed that no keepalive setting. I must have changed it
> in a pervious lab. Everything works now. Your kung-fu is far better than
> mine! I'm guessing a candidates ability to pick up on clues is what makes
> the difference between passing or failing.

Much of that comes with practice and experience. Some of it on-the-job in
terms of the weird things. Why, on more than one occasion, would different
otherwise relatively-clued customers think that "no ip routing" was a good
thing to configure on a router? Maybe it was so off-the-wall that it took
me twenty minutes to see it the first time. After that, thirty seconds the
next time someone did it. Customers also have a nasty habit of coming up
with really stupid config-registers when you least expect it. It's become
something I *always* check before remotely reloading a router now. Not to
mention "boot system somethingthatdoesntexist".

Other things you could try:

Does the spoke show up in CDP? If not it's layer 2 or 1.

Debug frame-relay LMI: On the hub side, the full-status message (every
sixth one) should be status 0x2 if all is good. 0x0 indicates a problem.
On the spoke side you wouldn't see (out) messages on the router side or
(in) from the router on the switch side.

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