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DCE/DTE Selection in serial cable
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 2:55 pm
by Levisallanon
I was working on a lab in eve ng and I wanted to test some things with serial cables. But when I have 2 routers with and Cisco IOL image and I connect a serial cable between these two nodes both cables are recognized as a DCE cable (or in the case of 1 image both where DTE). Is there any way in eve to select which type of cable this is?
Re: DCE/DTE Selection in serial cable
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:19 pm
by Uldis (UD)
virtual routers have not such option on serial interfaces !!!
Re: DCE/DTE Selection in serial cable
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 1:04 pm
by Levisallanon
Uldis (UD) wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:19 pm
virtual routers have not such option on serial interfaces !!!
Why not? For a lab (practice for my CCNA exam) I had to make a serial HLDC link between two routers. But the first time I tried both connections where a DTE cable so I couldn't set the clock rate. After that I used another image and both where a DCE cable so still couldn't get the full thing to work properly. Is this just something which isn't supported? In a program like packet tracer you can edit the cable to say which type of cable it is etc, I was looking for this in eve also but can't find it.
Re: DCE/DTE Selection in serial cable
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:50 pm
by mike
Did you ever tried if that works?
EVE doesn't emulate the physical layer which is why the serial connections should work even though they are both DCE
Re: DCE/DTE Selection in serial cable
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:38 am
by Levisallanon
mike wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:50 pm
Did you ever tried if that works?
EVE doesn't emulate the physical layer which is why the serial connections should work even though they are both DCE
I tried it. If they are both DCE it seems to work now. But with some images it connected as a DTE instead and then I couldn't make it work.