Hello Everybody. I am getting very strange problem in my home network. I am getting Status is up and line protocol is down message. Please check the attached diagram. I am unable to coonect Serial 1 of Router 2 with Serial 1 of router 3 I applied clock rate 64000 command on serial 1 interface of Router 2. Encapsulation on both ends is HDLC. I changed keepalive but was no success. Default keepalive is 10. I checked with sh controllers serial 1 command on router 2 and it showed me DCE interface. Note that DCD=up DTR=up RTS=up DSR=up CTS=up on both side. At the time of booting it shwed me Status is up line protocol is up for few seconds and than it was down. I used same cable on other interface and it is working properly. Cable and interface is is 100% ok thats why status is up. Line Protocol is down means that there is some problems on datalink layer. I think that it could be some masking problem. Please see it and let me know. Thanks Tariq [GroupStudy.com removed an attachment of type application/msword which had a name of gstudy.doc] Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=1526&t=1526 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]