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The PPP AppleTalk Control Protocol (ATCP)

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Network Working Group                                          B. Parker
Request for Comments: 1378                                Cayman Systems
                                                           November 1992


               The PPP AppleTalk Control Protocol (ATCP)

Status of this Memo

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

Abstract

   The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) [1] provides a standard method of
   encapsulating Network Layer protocol information over point-to-point
   links.  PPP also defines an extensible Link Control Protocol, and
   proposes a family of Network Control Protocols (NCPs) for
   establishing and configuring different network-layer protocols.

   This document defines the NCP for establishing and configuring the
   AppleTalk Protocol [3] over PPP.

   This memo is a joint effort of the AppleTalk-IP Working Group and the
   Point-to-Point Protocol Working Group of the Internet Engineering
   Task Force (IETF).  Comments on this memo should be submitted to the
    mailing list.

Table of Contents

   1.     Introduction ..........................................    2
   2.     A PPP Network Control Protocol (NCP) for AppleTalk ....    2
   2.1    Sending AppleTalk Datagrams ...........................    3
   2.2    Half-Routers ..........................................    4
   3.     ATCP Configuration Options ............................    4
   3.1    AppleTalk-Address .....................................    5
   3.2    Routing-Protocol ......................................    7
   3.3    Suppress-Broadcasts ...................................    8
   3.4    AT-Compression-Protocol ...............................    9
   3.5    Server-information ....................................   10
   3.6    Zone-Information ......................................   12
   3.7    Default-Router-Address ................................   13
   APPENDICES ...................................................   14
   A.     ATCP Recommended Options ..............................   14
   REFERENCES ...................................................   15



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