Frame-Relay Point-to-Point - subnet problems

Frame-Relay technology, a low cost WAN technology has two main modes.

1. Point-to-point
2. Multipoint

Point-to-point:
Meant for connecting different routers from different subnets via a central frame-relay cloud.

Multipoint:
Meant for connecting routers within the same subnet via a central frame-relay cloud.

However, having said that point-to-point serves to connect routers from different subnets, it actually implies to higher accuracy that point-to-point mode is meant for connecting groups of routers in different subnets; where each group is a different subnet by itself.

Refer to the following diagram for illustrations.

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