
PPP Concepts
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The protocol that you selected when you first enabled PPP on the circuit is
enabled by default. You can enable a different protocol by editing PPP protocol
parameters, as described in Chapter 3.
Transparent/Translation Bridge and Source Route Bridge are other routing media
that you can enable over any PPP interface. The PPP bridge accepts incoming
traffic from any media (Ethernet, FDDI, token ring) and forwards data
transparently (or translates when necessary).
Initializing a PPP Interface
PPP creates an interface between peer routers to allow them to exchange data. The
routers initialize the interface in three phases:
1. Establishing the PPP link
2. Authenticating the link (optional for leased lines)
3. Negotiating network layer protocols
The following sections describe each phase.
Establishing the PPP Link
PPP’s Link Control Protocol (LCP) helps establish a link. LCP generates three
types of packets:
• Link configuration packets, including configure-request, configure-ACK,
configure-NAK, and configure-reject packets
• Link termination packets, including terminate-request and terminate-ACK
packets
• Link maintenance packets, including code-reject, protocol-reject,
echo-request, and echo-reply packets
When two routers initialize a PPP dialogue, each of them sends a
configure-request packet to the other (peer) router. Each configure-request packet
contains a list of LCP options and corresponding values that the sending router
uses to define its end of the link.
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