frame Point-to-Multi Emulate

[m.egan]

I'm looking for clarification on point-to-multipiont connections. Is there an actual phyical implementation of this or is it all logical? How would I emulate this in a lab scenario? I have a 2522 and a few other 2500 routers in my lab.

[Richard Burts]

point-to-multipoint can certainly be a physical implementation. Probably the easiest way to do it is to set up one router as a frame relay switch. Then set up three routers as frame relay hub and spoke. On the hub router map the Frame Relay DLCIs to the physical interface, or if you want you can create a point to multipoint subinterface and map the DLCIs to it. Then you have got a genuine point-to-multipoint implementation.