RE: Sending RS232 Data over Frame Relay PVC

From: Barney Gaumer (bagaumer@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 18:02:06 GMT-3


Yeah - I used STUN back in the mid 90's to pass SDLC
from FEPs to 3174 Cluster Controllers at branch
offices for mainframe access.

I was going to pip up about STUN and BSTUN as
possiblities but I don't know enough about the
application in question to know if it would work.

Good luck,

Barney
--- Kenneth Wygand <KWygand@customonline.com> wrote:
> Thanks again for the info Charles.
>
> I've been looking up the STUN technology on
> cisco.com but I haven't had
> much luck finding much information on the technology
> itself and how it
> works, etc. (to determine if it will work for my
> application).
>
> I found a lot of configuration examples as well as a
> F.A.Q. page, but
> nothing that discusses the technology in general.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Kenneth E. Wygand
> Systems Engineer, Project Services
> CISSP #37102, CCNP, CCDP, MCP 2000, CNA 5.1,
> Network+, A+
> Custom Computer Specialists, Inc.
> "It's not just about ending up where you want to be,
> it's about making
> the most of the trip there."
> -Anonymous
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Church [mailto:cchurch@wamnet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:56 PM
> To: Kenneth Wygand; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: Sending RS232 Data over Frame Relay PVC
>
> Kenneth,
>
> Check out STUN (serial tunnelling). It can
> encapsulate serial
> data into
> IP. I've used it to handle SNA out of older ATM
> (bank machines) back to
> a
> central site.
>
> Chuck Church
> CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Kenneth Wygand
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:43 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Sending RS232 Data over Frame Relay PVC
>
>
> Elite Team,
>
>
>
> I have a hub-and-spoke Frame relay network I am
> looking to implement -
> 20 spokes and 1 hub with Frame Relay connections
> from the hub to each
> remote site. I also have a 56K synchronous serial
> RS232 line I must
> transport over this frame-relay connection from the
> hub to each of the
> remote sites (proprietary application). ALL REMOTE
> SITES RECEIVE THE
> SAME INFORMATION FROM THE HUB!
>
>
>
> Is there a way I can do this within a Cisco box?
> Would the DLCI
> configuration be able to support these requirements?
> I'd like to only
> send one copy of the feed into the Cisco router
> (thus requiring only one
> serial connection) and then copy it 20 times. Cisco
> said this can be
> done within the frame relay DLCI configuration, but
> I am not so sure.
> I'm assuming that with this method, I'll still need
> to use 20 x 56K
> bandwidth on the frame relay link connected to my
> hub and that's not
> really a big deal to me. I just don't want to have
> to have 20 serial
> interfaces on the Cisco Router to pump each
> individual feed (copied 20x)
> to each remote site.
>
>
>
> IP traffic will have to cross the link as well for
> Internet Access
> purposes. CIR at each remote site will probably be
> about 256K,
> including the 56K synchronous serial connection
> being carried over this
> link.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions or advice would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Kenneth E. Wygand
> Systems Engineer, Project Services
>
> CISSP #37102, CCNP, CCDP, MCP 2000, CNA 5.1,
> Network+, A+
> Custom Computer Specialists, Inc.
>
> "It's not just about ending up where you want to be,
> it's about making
> the most of the trip there."
> -Anonymous
>
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