Features of NetWare Link/Frame Relay

The NetWare Link/Frame Relay software includes support for the following features:

• Subscriber access rate up to T1 (1.544 Mbps) or E1 (2.048 Mbps)
• PVC only
• DTE/DCE operation
• Two-octet address format
• Maximum frame size up to 4520 octets
• Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (FECN) and Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (BECN) indications (read-only)
• Discard Eligibility (DE) bit
• The following local management protocols (configurable on a per-port basis):
  • Local Management Interface (LMI)
  • ANSI T1 617 Annex D

• Up to 1,024 virtual circuits per port (maximum of 975 PVCs for data transfer)
• Back-to-back testing mode
• RFC 1490 multiprotocol encapsulation over NetWare Link/Frame Relay
• IPXWAN version 2
• System configuration consistent with other Novell WAN connectivity products (NetWare Link/X.25 and NetWare Link/PPP)
• Novell Open Data-Link Interface^TM (ODI^TM) specification, Media Support Module^TM (MSM^TM) software, Topology Specific Module^TM (TSM^TM) software, and WHSM (WAN Hardware Specific Module^TM [HSM^TM]) software
• Protocol trace utility
• Instrumentation to SNMP Agent
• Frame relay MIB
• Certification by most public network providers
• Interoperation with other standards-based routers, such as Cisco Systems, IBM, Proteon*, 3Com Corporation, and Wellfleet