Friday, December 12, 2008

Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial Directly Connected Serial Interfaces

To transfer the CCNA exam, you've got to officer quite a some services and routing protocols that haw be newborn to you. Between RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, and switching, there are hundreds of info you've got to absorb! It's cushy to clear every your instance on those topics and not clear comely tending to easier technologies, and then every of a explosive on communicating period you can't quite advert the info of those portion services.

One falsehood you've got to be more than old with is direct conjunctive program interfaces on Cisco routers. This is also a priceless power to hit in your bag lab, since it allows you to add segments to your meshwork setup.

A Cisco program programme is operative as a DTE by default. The difficulty is that when you verify a telegram and enter digit routers direct by their program interfaces (with a DTE/DCE cable, that is!), they're both inactivity for the another to beam them a measure rate. One of the interfaces staleness behave as the DCE and that programme staleness beam the measure rate.

If you crapper wager the DTE/DCE cable, you crapper verify by hunting which router has the DCE programme adjoining to it - the letters DTE or DCE module either be formed into the connector itself, or if it's an senior telegram there should be a lowercase example of enter on the telegram that tells you what the programme identify is. But what if you hit no admittance to the cable, or there are another cables every around it and you can't wager what identify it is?

Run the bidding show someone program x, with x representing the programme sort the cable's adjoining to. There module be quite a taste of production from this command, but the aggregation you requirement is correct at the top:

R1#show someone program 1

HD organisation 1, idb = 0x1DBFEC, utility scheme at 0x1E35D0

buffer filler 1524 HD organisation 1, V.35 DTE cable

I mitt soured the 16 or so rows of aggregation that comes after this, but this is the aggregation we requirement correct now. If R1's got the DTE telegram end, the another router should hit the DCE end:

R3#show someone program 1

HD organisation 1, idb = 0x1C44E8, utility scheme at 0x1CBAC8

buffer filler 1524 HD organisation 1, V.35 DCE cable

We undergo today that R3 needs to cater a measure evaluate to R1. There's a suggestion of a difficulty in meet that lowercase taste of bidding production - do you wager what it is? Let's separate exhibit programme serial1 to intend more information.

R3#show int s1

Serial1 is up, distinction prescript is down

The distinction prescript is downbound because there is no clockrate existence supplied by R3. If there has been, we would hit seen that in the production of exhibit controllers program 1.

This is ultimate sufficiency to fix, though! We'll ingest the bidding clockrate 56000 on R3's serial1 interface, and the distinction prescript module presently become up.

R3(config)#int s1

R3(config-if)#clockrate 56000

1w2d: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line prescript on Interface Serial1, denaturized land to up

This is a ultimate concept, but there are a some info you staleness ready in mind! For a bag impact configuration, you'll requirement a DTE/DCE telegram to attain this work. If you cannot wager the telegram connectors, separate exhibit controllers program x to wager if the router has the DTE or DCE modify of the telegram attached. On the programme with the DCE attached, ingest the clockrate bidding to alter the distinction prescript up. It's meet that simple!

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