Layer 2 Forwarding Protocol
From Handwiki Short description: Cisco VPN tunneling protocol
L2F, or Layer 2 Forwarding, is a tunneling protocol developed by Cisco Systems, Inc. to establish virtual private network connections over the Internet. L2F does not provide encryption or confidentiality by itself; It relies on the protocol being tunneled to provide privacy. L2F was specifically designed to tunnel Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) traffic.[1]
Use
Virtual dial-up allows many separate and autonomous protocol domains to share common access infrastructure including modems, Access Servers, and ISDN routers. RFCs prior to 2341 have specified protocols for supporting IP dial-up via SLIP and multiprotocol dial-up via PPP.
L2F packet structure
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| F | K | P | S | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | C | Ver | Protocol | Sequence (opt) | ||||||||||||||||
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| L2F Checksum (opt) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other VPN protocols
- IPsec
- L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
- PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
References
- ↑ RFC2341 on IETF.org
External links
- L2F on Cisco.com
- VPDN on Cisco.com
- L2TP on Cisco.com
- RFC2341 on IETF.org
- RFC2341 on RFC Archive
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