GNS3 – How to build a frame-relay lab
Posted by Josh on Sun 6 Apr 2008Categories: Cisco , Cisco Routers , Dynamips , GNS3 - [77] Comments
In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a small frame-relay lab. I will walk you through adding the routers, the frame switch, configuring the PVCs on the switch, and configuring the routers for basic point-to-point connectivity.
This should give you a good basis for testing various QOS configurations, routing protocols as well as other frame-relay configs.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Another fine job, Josh.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Great job. It was really helped me to understand point-to-point frame relay. Do you think to make another video for multipoint frame relay ?
April 8th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Nice job. Like the partial mesh used in the frame relay switch.
April 12th, 2008 at 2:42 am
well job supper
April 15th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Well Done! Thank you
April 15th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
@Taner, I doubt I will get to a multipoint frame-relay tutorial in the near future. I have other things I would like to demonstrate more. You should be able to take the principles learned in this tutorial to build a partial mesh or full mesh.
@Everyone Else, Than you and you are welcome.
Josh
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Good example to make small lab fot FR!
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Andrey
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
@Josh, Your tutorial was great indeed.. thank you for sharing this… by the way can you help me figuring out my problem with my GNS3..
I follow the instruction in your tutorial, it was amazing.. though after configuring the routers then saving my topology.. when I exit the GNS3 then re-open it again.. all the configuration I made to the router was erased… is this the behaviour of the application?
Thank you in advance…
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
good job! its very useful…
June 4th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Great, fantastic, excellent and I’m deeply indebted.
Wasnik, you have to issue the write command or the copy running-config startup-config to keep the router configuration from session to session, just like a real router.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:32 am
[...] These labs were built based on BlindHogs’ How To build A Frame Relay Lab [...]
June 17th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
[...] These labs were built based on BlindHogs’ How To build A Frame Relay Lab [...]
June 18th, 2008 at 3:12 am
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk713/tk237/technologies_tech_note09186a008014f8a7.shtml
Here you will find some labs using the same topology that helped me to understand IARP,p2p and multipoint interfaces behaviour.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Thanks alot mate
You are a star
July 16th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I need to know how to configure the ATM switch.
July 19th, 2008 at 6:20 am
I am configuting point to multi point but its not working.
July 19th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Nice
Thanks for this tutorial – that was exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Kind regards from Germany…
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 am
Nice work on this! Good to see this in real world action.
What IOS in the Cisco 3640 are you guys using?
Many thanks and I look forward to more videos.
Great Job,
Brandon
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Brandon,
I can’t remember what IOS I used…
You can use the feature navigator to find an image that supports frame-relay.
http://www.cisco.com/go/fn
Actually, I would think that almost any image should support frame-relay.
Josh
September 28th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
lab worked like a treat
September 29th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Great job, mate. Many thanks for this.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:31 am
John & ThanhNV,
You’re welcome. Glad it helped.
Josh
September 30th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Guys,
This lab works great except there is one problem (probably the way i set it up), i enabled loopback address on all three routers and enabled RIPv2 (if i do static routes it’s the same thing). Router0 can ping all loopback interfaces yet Router1 and Router2 cannot ping each others loopback interfaces. Anyone?
Can someone setup this lab just like the video shows and post findings?
October 17th, 2008 at 5:00 am
really nice tutorials.
thanks
October 27th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Thanks,great work.This video help me very much to configure the frame relay switch.
November 16th, 2008 at 2:23 am
The video works greate with Point to Point Frame Relay. Can anyone show me how to do it with Broadcast (No point to point).
Thanks
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:25 pm
hi, buddy great work..keep it up…
January 15th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Tutorial was great! Couldn’t be better
February 10th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I’ve a question. So without using the actual FR-switch in GNS3, it won’t be possible to make this work with R1 —- R0 —-R2 ? and running ospf over F-R ?
February 12th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Thanx man….
super work as usual….
thanx from India
March 9th, 2009 at 10:56 am
@Saahib
You can use router as FR-switch. Example below:
hostname FRS
!
frame-relay switching
!
interface Serial1/0
description R1 Serial 1/0
no ip address
encapsulation frame-relay
clockrate 128000
frame-relay lmi-type cisco
frame-relay intf-type dce
frame-relay route 100 interface Serial1/1 200
frame-relay route 101 interface Serial1/2 301
!
interface Serial1/1
description R2 Serial 1/0
no ip address
encapsulation frame-relay
clockrate 128000
frame-relay lmi-type cisco
frame-relay intf-type dce
frame-relay route 200 interface Serial1/0 100
frame-relay route 201 interface Serial1/2 300
!
interface Serial1/2
description R3 Serial 1/0
no ip address
encapsulation frame-relay
clockrate 128000
frame-relay lmi-type cisco
frame-relay intf-type dce
frame-relay route 300 interface Serial1/1 201
frame-relay route 301 interface Serial1/0 101
!
end
March 12th, 2009 at 5:22 am
dev,
Thanks for posting this config! I am sure it will be a big help to many.
Josh
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
this is great. thx
April 13th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Thanks so much for the time you spent!
I kept getting errors in the labs I was building and this lesson showed me where I was messing up!
May 24th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Cheers mate! Thanks for the tutorial, it was very helpful!
May 28th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Is it possible that i have everything configured right and i can only ping one router from the core router. If i stop all router then start R0 and R1 i can ping. If i start R2 it can’t even ping itself. The i reverse it Start R0 w/ R2 OK. Start R1 nada.
Is it my PC?
June 5th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Tutorial Perfect. Congratulations!
June 12th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Hi Josh,
Thanks for the vid. I have an unusual problem when I try to configure a setup to practice with Chris Bryant’s lab for Frame Relay in his ultimate CCNA guide. For the hub and spoke topology the three routers use 172.12.123.0 /24 with .1, .2 and .3 for each of the routers. I have the DLCI’s set correctly and everything checks out when I run show frame map or show frame lmi. They are all talking to each other but pings are not going through at all. All the interfaces show up and active. The weird thing was that all the routers were running ANSI. I thought CISCO was the default LMI? I saw on another site someone said they had the same issue. I just can’t figure it out.
June 22nd, 2009 at 6:34 pm
[...] are blank files in that they are connected, have host names, IP addresses and the DLCIs are configured in the Frame Relay network. They’re basically ready to configure for the items listed above. [...]
August 5th, 2009 at 7:20 am
I am unable to mount the image on the GNS3. Every time when I select start..connection failed.
Any ideas.?
August 5th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I configured a 3640 as the FR but I’m not able to connect it to the other routers (I’m using 2600′s).
Can you help
Thanks
September 14th, 2009 at 4:16 am
Hi every body,
I have a little problem with the console, when I start the routers and want to configure them, i open the console but I can’t write in it… i don’t undestand why!!! I followed every step but I’m bloked plz help me
October 10th, 2009 at 12:09 am
thanks a lot ! I learned something new
October 17th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Nice Job and thanks a lot!
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Hi everyone
I was trying to configure a partially meshed frame relay with global dlci(as configured in ICND2, ch14)in GNS3. I’m so confused how would it be possible for FR switch to be configured like this: P1:51–>P10:52
P1:51–>P11:53
Thanx for the great job.
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Hi everyone
I was trying to configure a partially meshed frame relay with global dlci(as configured in ICND2, ch14)in GNS3. I’m so confused how would it be possible for FR switch to be configured like this:
P1:51–>P10:52
P1:51–>P11:53
Thanx for the great job.
January 24th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Tony,
In a partial mesh scenario, the routers will be configured similar to R0…having multiple PVCs
Josh
March 25th, 2010 at 5:13 am
This video has helped me more then required. I will say God Bless Internet and you all people.
May 11th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Thank you for this tutorial!
May 19th, 2010 at 4:56 am
Very useful, Very!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 24th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Great job
so helpfull
June 26th, 2010 at 1:50 am
Very helpful video…:-}
August 2nd, 2010 at 1:48 pm
You are the boss
Thank you so much for the nice work
August 3rd, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Man , How to you building this flash videos?
What soft you using to meke it?
September 3rd, 2010 at 7:22 am
Just what I needed.
Thank you so much.
October 24th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Great job to the author!!!
I first try this configuration with router c7200, but IOS did not work with sub interface configuration command. However it works with router c3600 which is used in this example. If anybody could give more information about this problem I’ll be grateful.
Again great job to the author.
October 24th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Andrey,
I am not sure the exact problem but the issue is most likely related to the IOS version on your 7200. What version are you trying to use?
Josh
October 25th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Hi from me again. In the beginning I thought that it is problem of GNS3, but as it is 100%simulation now I think the same as you, probably it is something wrong with the IOS. This I use is “7200 Software(C7200-PK9U2-M), Version 12.4(17)”. When I try it is happening something like this:
R1(config)#interface serial 1/0.?
Serial interface number
R1(config)#interface serial 1/0.100
% Incomplete command.
R1(config)#interface serial 1/0.100?
Josh, thanks for the prompt replay.
October 25th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
By the way, yesterday I try Frame-Relay configuration for Chapter-3 OSPF – CCNPv6. In the Routing materials on page 183 there is output for RouterC:
RouterC#
interface Serial0/0/0
ip address 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.0
ip ospf priority 3
The last line configuration is mistaken, it must be:
ip ospf priority 0
because with first priority this router is participating in the DR BDR election for the NBMA Frame relay network. If you have any place for such notes you can mark it.
That’s from me, I will proceed with my practical training
November 8th, 2010 at 2:32 am
[...] How to build a frame-relay lab [...]
December 25th, 2010 at 4:17 am
why can`t ping ?
ping Result is time out!
January 24th, 2011 at 8:18 am
Much appreciated. Helped me understand frame-relay in action.
February 26th, 2011 at 6:09 am
Hello Team,
Can some one help me in activating Frame-Relay switch itself. I can’s add IOS either 3600 or 37xx. Both the Routers ( models ) are working fine with ROuting. I could not able to map/locate IOS for Frame-Relay switch devices.
Thanks a ton in advance.
February 27th, 2011 at 1:09 am
FirstFoot,
Sorry, I don’t completely understand your question. Are you able to add routers to your topology and connect them to the GNS3 frame-relay switch as the tutorial describes?
Josh
March 30th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
Awesome Video Tutorial!! Perfect lab. Help me a lot with my CCNA Labs. Perfect job publishing these videos. Is possible you can split theses videos to categories like CCNA, CCNP,…?
Thanks a lot!!!
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:55 am
Very nice
May 17th, 2011 at 5:57 am
very useful …
July 5th, 2011 at 1:10 am
Nice one indeed, very useful.
explained in simple way
July 20th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
@Andrey, try interface serial 1/0.100 ?
which should tell you to put either point-to-point or multipoint.
July 31st, 2011 at 3:17 am
Thanks buddy!
Nice presentation.
September 14th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
irtaza malik says:
great job ewll don.
keep going
September 18th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
did u used clock rate command ? any where in this tut.. ? ..
how come they are working ?
October 20th, 2011 at 2:36 am
why should do we use clock rate in gns3 in every serial interfaces.
October 20th, 2011 at 2:45 am
if u check serial interface in gns3 all of them are dce when i run this commond (show controller) i don’t know the reason
October 25th, 2011 at 4:38 am
its nice one.. thank for uploads.
October 31st, 2011 at 7:24 am
Congratulations. This tutorial is very helpful.
Thank You.
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