Frame Relay Layer 3 Addressing: One Subnet Per VC

The second IP addressing alternative, having a single subnet for each VC, works better with a partially meshed Frame Relay network, as shown in Figure 13-12. Boston cannot forward frames directly to Charlotte because no VC is defined between the two. This is a more typical Frame Relay network because most organizations with many sites tend to group applications on servers at a few centralized locations and most of the traffic is between each remote site and those servers.

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Figure 13-12 Partial ...

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