Well I tried to use these cards in my frame switch and never got it working.

In the end I swapped out the VWIC-2MFT-T1's for WIC-1DSU-T1's and my frame 
switch started working like a champ! 

I found an article that shows its possible (according this guy), but I couldn't 
get it working myself

http://dreamforccie.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/convert-your-e1t1-pri-to-serial-interface/
    

After enabling "frame-relay switching" I created the serial interfaces and 
configured my hub and spoke but to no avail. On my VWICS I saw CD lights and no 
alarms but the interfaces were up / protocol down 

My commands for creating the serial interfaces

controller T1 0/0
 framing esf
 linecode b8zs
 channel-group 0 timeslots 1-24
!
controller T1 0/1
 framing esf
 linecode b8zs
 channel-group 0 timeslots 1-24

Now this created the following serial interfaces which I configured as follows

Serial0/0:0
Serial0/1:0

interface Serial0/0:0
 no ip address
 encapsulation frame-relay
 logging event subif-link-status
 logging event dlci-status-change
 clockrate 56000
 no frame-relay inverse-arp
 frame-relay intf-type dce
 frame-relay route 204 interface Serial0/1:0 402

interface Serial0/1:0
 no ip address
 encapsulation frame-relay
 logging event subif-link-status
 logging event dlci-status-change
 clockrate 56000
 no frame-relay inverse-arp
 frame-relay intf-type dce
 frame-relay route 402 interface Serial0/0:0 204

Again once I swapped them out with regular old WIC cards it started working 
like a champ!



Thank you. 

Steve Di Bias
Network Engineer - Information Systems
Valley Health System - Las Vegas
Office - 702- 369-7594
Cell - 702-241-1801
[email protected]

Thank you,
 
Steve Di Bias
Network Engineer - Information Systems
Valley Health System - Las Vegas
Office - 702- 369-7594
Cell - 702-241-1801
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Max Pierson
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:42 AM
To: Jay McMickle
Cc: IPExpert Online
Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Frame-Relay Switch WIC's

Hi Jay,

I've been down this road before with those interfaces. I'm not sure on
frame-relay, but when I had a point-to-point setup (HDLC), I could not get
the circuit to come up with VWIC2-2MFT-T1 on one side and WIC-DSU on the
other side (status stayed as up/down). As soon as I changed both sides to
the VWIC2-2MFT-T1, line-protocol came right up. I was told that there's some
slight difference in how the channel-groups are setup when you're
provisioning the timeslots for the interface. I havent dug into it much more
than that since I was able to get it to work with the same card on each
side.

Frame might be a whole other story, but I would start by having both WIC's
be the same on each side if that's possible.

Max

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Jay McMickle <[email protected]>wrote:

> Has anyone ever setup a Frame-relay switch using VWIC2-2MFT-T1/E1 as their
> cards?  I can make the normal WIC2T or WICv2/WIC-DSU's work just fine.
> A buddy
> of mine thought that you couldn't use this type of card since it creates
> the
> slotted interface (shown below). Again, if I take the same config and swap
> out
> the interface name on the same router, FRS works.  I searched and searched,
> but
> I only see these cards being used on the CCIE Voice tracks.  Any help is
> appreciated.
>
> frame-relay switching
>
> interface Serial0/1/1:3
>  no ip address
>  encapsulation frame-relay
>  frame-relay intf-type dce
>  frame-relay route 602 interface Serial0/0/0:0 206
>
>
> Regards,
> Jay McMickle- CCNP, CCSP, CCDP, MCSE
> http://mycciepursuit.wordpress.com/
>
>
>
>
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