RFC 2661 (rfc2661) - Page 2 of 80


Layer Two Tunneling Protocol "L2TP"



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RFC 2661                          L2TP                       August 1999


   4.4 AVP Summary...........................................   17
      4.4.1 AVPs Applicable To All Control Messages..........   17
      4.4.2 Result and Error Codes...........................   18
      4.4.3 Control Connection Management AVPs...............   20
      4.4.4 Call Management AVPs.............................   27
      4.4.5 Proxy LCP and Authentication AVPs................   34
      4.4.6 Call Status AVPs.................................   39
   5.0 Protocol Operation....................................   41
   5.1 Control Connection Establishment......................   41
      5.1.1 Tunnel Authentication............................   42
   5.2 Session Establishment.................................   42
      5.2.1 Incoming Call Establishment......................   42
      5.2.2 Outgoing Call Establishment......................   43
   5.3 Forwarding PPP Frames.................................   43
   5.4 Using Sequence Numbers on the Data Channel............   44
   5.5 Keepalive (Hello).....................................   44
   5.6 Session Teardown......................................   45
   5.7 Control Connection Teardown...........................   45
   5.8 Reliable Delivery of Control Messages.................   46
   6.0 Control Connection Protocol Specification.............   48
   6.1 Start-Control-Connection-Request (SCCRQ)..............   48
   6.2 Start-Control-Connection-Reply (SCCRP)................   48
   6.3 Start-Control-Connection-Connected (SCCCN)............   49
   6.4 Stop-Control-Connection-Notification (StopCCN)........   49
   6.5 Hello (HELLO).........................................   49
   6.6 Incoming-Call-Request (ICRQ)..........................   50
   6.7 Incoming-Call-Reply (ICRP)............................   51
   6.8 Incoming-Call-Connected (ICCN)........................   51
   6.9 Outgoing-Call-Request (OCRQ)..........................   52
   6.10 Outgoing-Call-Reply (OCRP)...........................   53
   6.11 Outgoing-Call-Connected (OCCN).......................   53
   6.12 Call-Disconnect-Notify (CDN).........................   53
   6.13 WAN-Error-Notify (WEN)...............................   54
   6.14 Set-Link-Info (SLI)..................................   54
   7.0 Control Connection State Machines.....................   54
   7.1 Control Connection Protocol Operation.................   55
   7.2 Control Connection States.............................   56
      7.2.1 Control Connection Establishment.................   56
   7.3 Timing considerations.................................   58
   7.4 Incoming calls........................................   58
      7.4.1 LAC Incoming Call States.........................   60
      7.4.2 LNS Incoming Call States.........................   62
   7.5 Outgoing calls........................................   63
      7.5.1 LAC Outgoing Call States.........................   64
      7.5.2 LNS Outgoing Call States.........................   66
   7.6 Tunnel Disconnection..................................   67
   8.0 L2TP Over Specific Media..............................   67
   8.1 L2TP over UDP/IP......................................   68



Townsley, et al.            Standards Track