Frame Relay problems

[james.graves]

I have a new Frame Relay cloud that I need to connect five remote offices to my home office. I am using Cisco 1720 routers to accomplish this task.

I have setup one remote site already using subinterface settings. The problem I am having is that I have to set an ip address on the S0 interface to make this work. When I look at Tac it shows me as leaving a "no ip address" on S0. When I do this I lose my frame connection. Below are my configs;

Home Office setup

interface Serial0

ip address 192.168.1.82 255.255.255.252 " Was set to No Ip address"

encapsulation frame-relay

!

interface Serial0.1 point-to-point

ip address 192.168.1.82 255.255.255.252

frame-relay interface-dlci 555

Remote Office setup

interface Serial0

ip address 192.168.1.81 255.255.255.252

encapsulation frame-relay

frame-relay interface-dlci 560

frame-relay lmi-type cisco

Any ideas?

Thanks

Jim

[vmiller]

THe TAC example may have been one for inverse arp or ip unnumbered

using a lan interface address. Either way, if there is no compelling need

to not have IP on the frame relay interfaces, just leave it....it aint broke...

[vmiller]

heres a url for an example on how to do frame with inverse arp

note the differences in how the interfaces are configured

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk713/tk237/technologies_configuration_example09186a008009421f.shtml

[nsabnis]

Dear just do one thing create a subinterface at remote site also. i mean instead of giving ip address to s0 u define ip address on s0.1 on remote site.

basically this is a hub and spoke type of thing.from one hub u want to connect no of site. so create 5 sub int on central site..like sub int0.1,0.2 ,0.3 etc and then do point to point mapping with remote site. remember with point to point u have to create subinterface.

now just do this

interface s0

no ip address

encap frame relay

interface Serial0.1

ip address 192.168.1.81 255.255.255.252

frame-relay interface-dlci 560

frame-relay lmi-type cisco

and repete this for all other site. ur prob will be solved.

[james.graves]

Actually I had that exact setup in my configs. When I couldn't get it to work that way I changed it to the way you see now.