11 Mar 2004 21:19
I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-l2tpext-failover-03.txt
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2004-03-11 20:19:47 GMT
2004-03-11 20:19:47 GMT
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol Extensions Working Group of the IETF. Title : Fail Over extensions for L2TP 'failover' Author(s) : R. Penno, K. Parikh Filename : draft-ietf-l2tpext-failover-03.txt Pages : 13 Date : 2004-3-11 L2TP is a connection-oriented protocol that has shared state between active endpoints. Some of this shared state is vital for operation but may be rather volatile in nature, such as packet sequence numbers used on the L2TP Control Connection. When failure of one side of a control connection occurs, a new control connection is created and associated with the old connection by exchanging information about the old connection. Such a mechanism is not intended as a replacement for an active fail over with some mirrored connection states, but as an aid just for those parameters that are particularly difficult to have immediately available. Protocol extensions to L2TP defined in this document are intended to facilitate state recovery, providing additional resiliency in an L2TP network and improving a remote system's layer 2 connectivity. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-l2tpext-failover-03.txt To remove yourself from the IETF Announcement list, send a message to ietf-announce-request with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username(Continue reading)
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