Frame Relay Question

Ger Thrond (thrond@machine.machines.com)
Thu, 3 Oct 1996 05:52:58 -0700 (PDT)

We have a T1 frame relay feed from an internet provider to which we
have a PM2er connected. We would like to offer part of our bandwidth
to others but have the following question:

Can a 2er receive a frame feed from it's synchronous port from a
provider and at the same time have downstream users point to
our DLCI thus having all packets come from the provider to us and
only the packets for the downstream person be re-routed from our
site? Or, would we have to have another router or type of router
to accept packets on one T1 and drive another T1 to feed the cloud
ourselves?

In either case we expect that multiple downstream users could all point
to our one DLCI? A college of ours is accomplishing this but he has
to buy a separate cisco router which is at the providers site which
he uses to feed the local cloud then he his customers all point to his
DLCI there. This costs him rack space rental, another router and
lack of accessibility to his equipment.

Is there a better way?

Thanks very much in advance.
Ger Thrond