dte and dce

rc240sxrc240sx Member Posts: 8 ■□□□□□□□□□
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To my knowledge, dte connects to the customer side and dce connects to the service providers side. If we have a few local routers shouldn't they all be DTE?
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  • prolificprolific Member Posts: 22 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Well DCE's provide clocking service. If you have 2 local routers and want them to connect them directly through a serial connection, then you would have to set the clock rate command on one of the routers' serial interface. So the one where you set the clock rate command will be the DCE and the other will be the DTE. :D
    There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.
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  • ss1020ss1020 Member Posts: 12 ■□□□□□□□□□
    I always found it useful to remember that the "C" in DCE stood for clocking.
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