Hello Vilmos, Initially you can hook the units up back to back with a crossover cable to verify that your setup is working. The phone company will have to provide you with the DLCI numbers. For Frame Relay you are connecting to their equipment and they have a DLCI # on their end and your end has a DLCI #. If these are not correct it will not work. These are assigned by the telco and are something like 100 on one end and 101 on the other. (They have reversed these on me before on the initial setup) Now, if you have a point to point circuit and are not actually tapping into the Frame Relay cloud then I imagine you could assign your own. In this case it would seem that you would want to configure for T1 or Fractional T1 and DLCI #s are not required. I'm not familiar with the Fastcomm Etherfrad unit but we do use P130's and P220's in both Frame Relay and point to point T1 circuits. The DLCI was not an issue (doesn't use them) with the point to point T1 but definitely has to match the phone co. setup for the frame relay. I'd say a identical equipment on each end would help simplify things but may not be necessary. I believe I'd try and set them up as mentioned above with a crossover cable and see if you can get it working - that way it rules out any errors on the part of the telco - at least as a test to get things going initially. Hope this helps, good luck. Scott Starbuck Aobe Network Group 5340 Millertown Pike, Suite 131 Knoxville, TN 37924 phone: 865-689-7290 fax: 865-688-0068 e-mail: scott at aobe.com ---------------------- Vilmos Branyik wrote: > I'll apologize in advance for asking what may be a stupid question ..... > > I've been asked to replace some equipment that is not operating correctly on > a Frame relay circuit. I have a Pipeline 130 and a Fastcomm Etherfrad to put > on each end. I have set up the frame relay profile and what I thought was > needed in the Pipeline but I am still not able to get the routers to > communicate. > > So here are my questions: > > Will this setup even work or does there have to be some sort of special > router at one end or the other? > > What about the DLCI number? I set it to 16 but does the number matter since > I am the one setting it on both ends. Or should I contact the telco and find > out what number to use? > > Is there some way I can hook up the 2 routers directly? I'm assuming I can't > but thought I would ask anyway. > > Would I be better off putting another Pipeline 130 at the other end? I can > get one if it would help. > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > V. M. Branyik > ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ > To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com > Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/ ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com Archives: http://www.nexial.com/mailinglists/