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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2005
William Mark Townsley, Nashville, TN (US);
Huw Jones, Oxfordshire, GB;
Vincent John Mammoliti, Mississauga, CA;
William Mark Townsley, Nashville, TN (US);
Huw Jones, Oxfordshire, GB;
Vincent John Mammoliti, Mississauga, CA;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for exchanging point to point protocol (PPP) information among network nodes using an arbitrary network protocol include determining whether a PPP payload includes PPP control data. If so, then an outbound protocol frame is generated with the PPP control data in a payload and with an outbound protocol type field that indicates PPP control data. The outbound protocol frame is sent to a server which uses the PPP control data. The outbound protocol is different from PPP and from PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) and from PPP over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) protocol (PPPoA). The outbound protocol may be Ethernet or ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL) or some other protocol. These techniques allow PPP control plane functionality while utilizing IP over Ethernet for the data plane.