Back to Back Frame Relay

Back-to-Back frame relay is without a Frame Relay Hub, the encapsulation is frame-relay on a point-to-point link.

Frame relay expects LMI by default, so to get this work, we need to disable keepalives.

             10.0.0.0/30
┌────┐DCE                  DTE┌────┐
│ R1 ├────────────────────────│ R2 │
└────┘ .1                  .2 └────┘

R1

The DCE generates the clock.

!
! R1
!
ip address 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.252
encapsulation frame-relay
frame-relay map ip 10.0.0.2 102
clockrate 64000
no keepalive
no shut

!
! R2
!
ip address 10.0.0.2 255.255.255.252
encapsulation frame-relay
frame-relay map ip 10.0.0.0 1
no keepalive
no shut