Conﬁguring Frame Relay Ports

Frame Relay Status and Conﬁguration

¥Frame Relay Management Stats provide an overview of the frame management (LMI or Annex D) in use on the selected port, displayed via meters;

¥Frame Relay Congestion Stats provide information about congestion notiÞcation and discard eligibility frames being transmitted across the port, also displayed in meters; and

¥The Frame Relay Errors window provides a single meter, which displays the current frame discard rate.

These windows and their functions are described in the following sections.

The statistical windows display their information via the SPMA Meters application; for

TIP more information on how to manipulate and conÞgure these meters, see the SPMA Tools Guide.

Two conÞguration windows allow you to set frame relay operational parameters for physical ports and speciÞcations for any DLCI conÞgured for a selected frame relay port: Frame Relay Port ConÞguration, described below, and Frame Relay DLCI Rate ConÞguration, described beginning on page 5-8.

Port Conﬁguration

Using the Frame Relay ConÞguration window, you can conÞgure some basic operational parameters for each of your frame relay ports.

To access the window:

1.Click mouse button 3 on the frame relay port of interest to display the Port Menu.

2.Drag down to Frame Relay Port Conﬁguration, and release. The Frame Relay Conﬁguration window,Figure 5-1, will appear.

5-2	Conﬁguring Frame Relay Ports

1800, FRX4000, FRX6000 specifications

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Cabletron Systems FRX4000, FRX6000, 1800 manual Conﬁguring Frame Relay Ports, Port Conﬁguration

Models: 1800 FRX4000 FRX6000

Frame Relay Status and Conﬁguration