RFC 4045

Extensions to Support Efficient Carrying of Multicast Traffic in Layer-2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP), April 2005

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Status:
EXPERIMENTAL
Author:
G. Bourdon
Stream:
IETF
Source:
l2tpext (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4045

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Abstract

The Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) provides a method for tunneling PPP packets. This document describes an extension to L2TP, to make efficient use of L2TP tunnels within the context of deploying multicast services whose data will have to be conveyed by these tunnels. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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