Re: Frame-relay connectionless ?

Hi Abraham,

  Thanks for clarifying the sentence.

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Abraham, Tharak <tharakabraham_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Anantha,
>
> Frame relay is a connection oriented protocol, but as the guide says it
> doesnt do anything on itself for
> retransmission for errors.Hence service from the upper layers are required.
> Wordings like this really gets all confused..-:)
>
> Mark,
>
> i believe peer to peer FR is also connection oriented as any others...think
> VC.
> Does FREEK have something to do with the data path ?
>
>
> Tharak.
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Anantha Subramanian Natarajan <
> anantha.natarajan_at_gravitant.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was going through a book (CCIE Self-study CCIE Security Exam
>> Certification Guide,april 2003 print) on a section "Example of
>> Peer-to-peer
>> Communication" and under this it has the below sentence
>>
>> "Frame Relay is connectionless so,if an error occurs,it's up the to upper
>> layers to retransmit"
>>
>> My understanding is, frame-relay is a connection-oriented protocol,is the
>> above having a typo or I am missing basic or is it trying to convey
>> something different .Kindly clarify me the same.
>>
>> Thanks for all the help
>>
>> Regards
>> Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
>>
>>
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