Clockrate Command

Daniel333

Alright, sorry to be bothering you guys so much today. But hey, what I ask today, might help someone tomorrow. I am studying for the CCNA-Intro exam, so the books I have are kind limited. They alll give examples of either setting the clockrate on the DCE at either 64000 or 128000, which seems off to me. Should be we setting that much higher to support the 10Mpbs the router's Serial ports should be supporting?

Where have I gone wrong on this assumption?

Pash

Well yes, if this is a lab or simulation you are trying to test on you could set your speed as much as allowed by your serial port (infact im not sure of the speeds, you could probably find out from the cisco website dependent on several factors). However, most of the examples provided by cisco press and other study vendors will mention 64k and 128k many times because the DCE equipment in real world scenarios usually sits in an ISP centre, because obviously they decide the physical speed of your p2p connection, if the customer were allowed to set the clockrate then....well you get the idea.