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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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