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 InterfaceTM (ODITM) specification, Media Support ModuleTM (MSMTM) software, Topology Specific ModuleTM (TSMTM) software, and WHSM (WAN Hardware Specific ModuleTM [HSMTM]) 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
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