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Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

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RFC 2637        Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)       July 1999


   switched connections.  PPTP uses an enhanced GRE (Generic Routing
   Encapsulation) mechanism to provide a flow- and congestion-controlled
   encapsulated datagram service for carrying PPP packets.

Specification of Requirements

   In this document, the key words "MAY", "MUST, "MUST NOT", "optional",
   "recommended", "SHOULD", and "SHOULD NOT" are to be interpreted as
   described in [12].

   The words "silently discard", when used in reference to the behavior
   of an implementation upon receipt of an incoming packet, are to be
   interpreted as follows: the implementation discards the datagram
   without further processing, and without indicating an error to the
   sender.  The implementation SHOULD provide the capability of logging
   the error, including the contents of the discarded datagram, and
   SHOULD record the event in a statistics counter.

Table of Contents

   1. Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   1.1.  Protocol Goals and Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   1.2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   1.3.  Protocol Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   1.3.1.  Control Connection Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   1.3.2.  Tunnel Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   1.4.  Message Format and Protocol Extensibility  . . . . . . . .   8
   2.  Control Connection Protocol Specification  . . . . . . . . .  10
   2.1.  Start-Control-Connection-Request . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   2.2.  Start-Control-Connection-Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   2.3.  Stop-Control-Connection-Request  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
   2.4.  Stop-Control-Connection-Reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
   2.5.  Echo-Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
   2.6.  Echo-Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   2.7.  Outgoing-Call-Request  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
   2.8.  Outgoing-Call-Reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
   2.9.  Incoming-Call-Request  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
   2.10.  Incoming-Call-Reply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
   2.11.  Incoming-Call-Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
   2.12.  Call-Clear-Request  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
   2.13.  Call-Disconnect-Notify  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
   2.14.  WAN-Error-Notify  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
   2.15.  Set-Link-Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
   2.16.  General Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   3.  Control Connection Protocol Operation  . . . . . . . . . . .  36
   3.1.  Control Connection States  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
   3.1.1.  Control Connection Originator (may be PAC or PNS)  . . .  37
   3.1.2.  Control connection Receiver (may be PAC or PNS)  . . . .  39



Hamzeh, et al.               Informational
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