User Guide

Chapter 1. Advanced Topics 17
Protocol Conformance
Protocol Standards
The router conforms to RFCs designed to address performance, authentication, and multi-protocol encapsulation.
The following RFCs are supported:
• RFC 1058 Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
• RFC 1144 Compressing TCP/IP headers (Van Jacobson)
• RFC 1220 Bridging Control Protocol (BNCP)
• RFC 1332 IP Control Protocol (IPCP)
• RFC 1334 Password Authentication Protocol and Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (PAP/
CHAP)
• RFC 1483 Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5
• RFC 1490 Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay
• RFC 1552 Novell IPX Control Protocol (IPXCP)
• RFC 1577 Classical IP and ARP over ATM
• RFC 1661 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
• RFC 1723 RIP Version 2
• RFC 1962 PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP)
• RFC 1973 PPP in Frame Relay
• RFC 1974 Stac LZS compression protocol
• RFC 1990 Multi-Link Protocol (MLP)
• RFC 2131 and 2132 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
IP Routing
IP routing support, in conformance with RFC 791, provides the ability to process TCP/IP frames at the network
layer for routing. IP routing support includes the Routing Interface Protocol (RIP), in conformance with RFC
1058 (RIP v.1) and RFC 1723 (RIP v.2).
IPX Routing
IPX routing conforms to the Novell® NetWare™ IPX Router Development Guide, Version 1.10.
Encapsulation Options
This section describes in technical terms the format of each packet associated with a particular encapsulation
option supported by the router.
The encapsulation type for each remote entry is defined using the
remote setProtocol
command.