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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.
PPP
Each packet begins with a one or two-byte protocol ID. Typical IDs are:
0xc021 -- LCP
0x8021 -- IPCP
0x0021 -- IP
0x002d -- Van Jacobson compressed TCP/IP
0x002f -- Van Jacobson uncompressed TCP/IP
0x8031 -- Bridge NCP
0x0031 -- Bridge Frame
The command for this encapsulation option is:
remote setProtocol
PPP
<
remoteName
>
Note:
With PPP over ATM, the address and control fields (i.e. FF03) are never present, including in LCP packets.
PPPLLC
This protocol (LLC-multiplexed) allows PPP traffic to be carried simultaneously with other traffic on a single
virtual circuit (as opposed to the PPP method of encapsulation – VC multiplexing - which dedicates a virtual
circuit to PPP traffic only).
Each PPP packet is prepended with the sequence 0xFEFE03CF. Thus, an LLC packet has the format:
0xFEFE03CF 0xC021.
The command for this encapsulation option is:
remote setProtocol PPPLLC
<
remoteName
>