04-12-2003 05:58 AM - edited 03-02-2019 06:36 AM
I am brand spanking new to networking. I have finished the Cisco Academy and bought a CCNA lab with 2 2501's and a 2924 switch. I am discovering how little I really know. I am trying to connect the two routers together with the DB60 connectors but can't get the line protocols to ever stay up. The serial port stays up but the line protocol gets toggled back to a down status. I got 2 DTE male connections but not a DCE female to imitate a wan connection. I have no shutdown set. I also configured the connections with cisco config maker with frame-relay.
04-12-2003 11:00 PM
Hi
You need to be DCE one end and DTE the other. On the DCE interface you will have to set the clock rate. ie clockrate 128000 .You either need a DCE cable to join to your DTE or a DCE to DTE back to back cable, see them on Ebay and similar sites.
Hope that helps
Ian
04-13-2003 07:39 AM
Here is a copy of the run configuration and the interface for both routers. (I have a back to back cable, the DCE end is connected to Lab_A. Both DCE and DTE are connected to serial 1. Thanks.
LAB_A#show int ser 1
Serial1 is up, line protocol is down
Hardware is HD64570
Internet address is 198.100.10.1/24
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1544 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec, rely 255/255, load 1/255
Encapsulation PPP, loopback not set, keepalive set (10 sec)
LCP REQsent
Closed: IPCP, CDPCP
Last input never, output 00:00:01, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0 (size/max/drops); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: weighted fair
Output queue: 0/1000/64/0 (size/max total/threshold/drops)
Conversations 0/1/256 (active/max active/max total)
Reserved Conversations 0/0 (allocated/max allocated)
5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
0 packets input, 0 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
250 packets output, 4452 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 174 interface resets
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
228 carrier transitions
DCD=up DSR=up DTR=up RTS=up CTS=up
LAB_B#show int ser 1
Serial1 is up, line protocol is down
Hardware is HD64570
Internet address is 169.100.10.2/16
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1544 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec, rely 255/255, load 1/255
Encapsulation PPP, loopback not set, keepalive set (10 sec)
LCP ACKsent
Closed: IPCP, CDPCP
Last input 00:00:01, output 00:00:00, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
Input queue: 0/75/0 (size/max/drops); Total output drops: 0
Queueing strategy: weighted fair
Output queue: 0/1000/64/0 (size/max total/threshold/drops)
Conversations 0/2/256 (active/max active/max total)
Reserved Conversations 0/0 (allocated/max allocated)
5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
5 minute output rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec
781 packets input, 11886 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 703 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
742 packets output, 50258 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 collisions, 207 interface resets
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
419 carrier transitions
DCD=up DSR=up DTR=up RTS=up CTS=up
LAB_A#show run
Building configuration...
Current configuration:
!
version 12.0
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
no service password-encryption
!
hostname LAB_A
!
!
ip subnet-zero
!
!
!
interface Ethernet0
no ip address
no ip directed-broadcast
shutdown
!
interface Serial0
ip address 169.100.10.1 255.255.0.0
no ip directed-broadcast
encapsulation ppp
no ip mroute-cache
no fair-queue
clockrate 56000
!
interface Serial1
ip address 198.100.10.1 255.255.255.0
no ip directed-broadcast
encapsulation ppp
clockrate 56000
!
router rip
network 169.100.0.0
network 198.100.10.0
!
ip classless
!
!
line con 0
transport input none
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
!
end
LAB_B#show run
Building configuration...
Current configuration:
!
version 12.0
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
no service password-encryption
!
hostname LAB_B
!
!
ip subnet-zero
!
!
!
interface Ethernet0
no ip address
no ip directed-broadcast
shutdown
!
interface Serial0
no ip address
no ip directed-broadcast
no ip mroute-cache
shutdown
no fair-queue
!
interface Serial1
ip address 169.100.10.2 255.255.0.0
no ip directed-broadcast
encapsulation ppp
!
router rip
network 169.100.0.0
network 198.100.10.0
!
ip classless
!
!
line con 0
transport input none
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
!
end
04-13-2003 08:40 PM
Hi
If both are connected to S1 then you have an addressing problem! Also no clockrate at DCE interface set.
Ian
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