Supported PPP Interface Standards

The JUNOS Software substantially supports the following standards for Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) interfaces.

Standards Track RFCs

• RFC 1332, The PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP)
• RFC 1334, PPP Authentication Protocols
• RFC 1661, The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
• RFC 1662, PPP in HDLC-like Framing
• RFC 1717, The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) (see also RFC 1990)
• RFC 1989, PPP Link Quality Monitoring
• RFC 1990, The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP) (see also RFC 1717)
• RFC 2364, PPP Over AAL5
• RFC 2615, PPP over SONET/SDH
• RFC 2686, The Multi-Class Extension to Multi-Link PPP

  The following features are not supported:

  • Negotiation of address field compression and protocol field compression PPP NCP options; instead, a full 4-byte PPP header is always sent
  • Prefix elision
• RFC 3021, Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links

Informational RFCs

• RFC 1877, PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol Extensions for Name Server Addresses
• RFC 2153, PPP Vendor Extensions

Related Topics

• Accessing Standards Documents on the Internet