Product specifications

Efficient Networks
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Router family
Technical Reference Guide
Chapter 2: Product Overview
Efficient Networks
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The router supports the following WAN encapsulations:
• PPP (VC multiplexing)
• PPP (LLC multiplexing)
• PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet)
• RFC 1483 (for ATM)
• RFC 1483 with MAC encapsulated routing (for ATM)
• FRF8 (for ATM)
• RFC 1490 (for Frame Relay)
• RFC 1490 with MAC encapsulated routing (for Frame Relay)
• The packet formats for these encapsulation methods are given in
“Encapsulation Options” on page 2-11.
Protocol Conformance
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 Authenti-
cation Protocol (PAP/CHAP)
RFC 1389 RIP2
RFC 1483 Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5
RFC 1490 Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay
RFC 1542 DHCP Relay Agent
RFC 1552 Novell IPX Control Protocol (IPXCP)
RFC 1577 Classical IP and ARP over ATM
RFC 1631 Network Renumbering
RFC 1661 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
RFC 1723 RIP Version 2
RFC 1769 Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
RFC 1877 Automatic IP / DNS
RFC 1962 PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP)
RFC 1969 PPP DES Encryption Protocol (ECP)
RFC 1973 PPP in Frame Relay