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RFC 4045: Extensions to Support Efficient Carrying of Multicast Traffic in Layer-2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)

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The Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) provides a method for tunneling PPP packets. This document describes an extension to L2TP, to make efficient use of L2TP tunnels within the context of deploying multicast services whose data will have to be conveyed by these tunnels. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

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Document ID
RFC4045
Published
April 2005
Authors
G. Bourdon
Status
EXPERIMENTAL
Stream
IETF
Area
rtg
Pages
28
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