
Dial Services Overview
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The frame relay switch does not activate PVCs and configured DLCIs until the
router receives data from the demand circuit and exchanges Data Link Control
Management Interface (DLCMI) status messages with the switch. For more
information about frame relay, see Configuring Frame Relay Services.
Terminating Demand Circuits
The router deactivates the demand circuit when
• You enable the Force Take Down parameter.
To deactivate a force dial connection, you configure the Force Take Down
parameter, which instructs the router to clear the connection. To learn how to
configure this parameter, refer to Chapter 10.
• You schedule the circuit to come down.
Using the Schedule option, you can schedule the circuit’s availability for a
specific day and time. The schedule parameters are part of the circuit’s
configuration (refer to Chapter 10). The Schedule option also allows you to
configure whether the router uses the Inactivity Time parameter to
dynamically deactivate the connection.
• The inactivity time expires.
To deactivate the connection, you can configure the Inactivity Time
parameter, which dynamically terminates the connection after a specified
amount of time elapses without data activity. If there is data going across the
line, the inactivity time resets and the connection remains active.
To ensure that a connection is not up longer than necessary, you can configure
traffic filters that allow specific types of data to go across a line without
resetting the inactivity time.
For PPP connections, the router does not consider Link Quality Report
(LQR), Link Control Protocol (LCP), and periodic CHAP messages as data,
so these messages do not reset the inactivity timer.
For frame relay circuits, DLCMI messages and other signaling packets are not
treated as data, so they do not reset the inactivity timer. The router usually
terminates frame relay demand connections, not the frame relay network.
• The frame relay DLCMI fails.
If the DLCMI messages cannot be exchanged across the frame relay demand
circuit, the router deactivates the circuit.
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