Configuring the Router as a DCE with Frame Relay Encapsulation
By default, when you configure an interface with Frame Relay encapsulation, the routing platform is assumed to be DTE. That is, the routing platform is assumed to be at a terminal point on the network. To configure the routing platform to be DCE, include the dce statement at the [edit interfaces interface-name] hierarchy level:
[edit interfaces interface-name]dce;
When you configure the router to be a DCE, keepalives are disabled by default.
For back-to-back Frame Relay connections, either disable the sending of keepalives on both sides of the connection, or configure one side of the connection as a DCE and the other as a DTE by removing the dce statement from the configuration (the default Junos configuration).
