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Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay

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Network Working Group                                          C. Brown
Request for Comments: 2427                                   Consultant
STD: 55                                                        A. Malis
Obsoletes: 1490, 1294                       Ascend Communications, Inc.
Category: Standards Track                                September 1998


              Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This memo describes an encapsulation method for carrying network
   interconnect traffic over a Frame Relay backbone.  It covers aspects
   of both Bridging and Routing.

   Systems with the ability to transfer both the encapsulation method
   described in this document, and others must have a priori knowledge
   of which virtual circuits will carry which encapsulation method and
   this encapsulation must only be used over virtual circuits that have
   been explicitly configured for its use.

Acknowledgments

   This document could not have been completed without the support of
   Terry Bradley of Avici Systems, Inc..  Comments and contributions
   from many sources, especially those from Ray Samora of Proteon, Ken
   Rehbehn of Visual Networks, Fred Baker and Charles Carvalho of Cisco
   Systems, and Mostafa Sherif of AT&T have been incorporated into this
   document. Special thanks to Dory Leifer of University of Michigan for
   his contributions to the resolution of fragmentation issues (though
   it was deleted in the final version) and Floyd Backes and Laura
   Bridge of 3Com for their contributions to the bridging descriptions.
   This document could not have been completed without the expertise of
   the IP over Large Public Data Networks and the IP over NBMA working
   groups of the IETF.




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