Table Of Contents
Information Model Objects (IMOs)
Vendor-Specific Inventory and IMOs
Point-to-Point Protocol
This chapter describes the level of support that Cisco ANA provides for Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), as follows:
•Information Model Objects (IMOs)
•Vendor-Specific Inventory and IMOs
Technology Description
This section provides the following PPP technology descriptions:
•PPP
•POS
Please see Part 1: Cisco VNEs in this guide for information about which devices support the various technologies.
PPP
PPP (RFC 1661) originally emerged as an encapsulation protocol for transporting IP traffic over point-to-point links. PPP also established standards for the assignment and management of IP addresses, octet-synchronous (asynchronous) encapsulation, use of an HDLC-like framing protocol (RFC 1662), bit-synchronous encapsulation, use of HDLC protocols, network protocol multiplexing, link configuration, link quality testing, error detection, and option negotiation for such capabilities as network layer address and data compression negotiation.
PPP supports these functions by providing an extensible Link Control Protocol (LCP) and a family of Network Control Protocols (NCPs) to negotiate optional configuration parameters and facilities.
POS
Packet over SONET/SDH (PoS) is a data link (Layer 2) technology that uses PPP (RFC 1661) in HDLC-like framing (RFC 1662) encapsulation over SONET/SDH framing. The PoS interface supports SONET/SDH-level alarm processing, performance monitoring, synchronization, and protection switching, which enables seamless interoperation with existing SONET infrastructures and provides the capability to migrate to IP+Optical networks without the need for legacy SONET infrastructures.
PPPoA
Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM (PPPoA, RFC 2364) is a protocol for encapsulating PPP frames for transmission over an ATM network. It offers standard PPP features and supports the VC-MUX and LLC based encapsulation. It is used mainly by DOCSIS and DSL carriers.
PPPoE
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE, RFC 2516) is a protocol for encapsulating PPP frames inside Ethernet frames. It is used mainly with DSL services where individual users connect to the DSL modem over Ethernet and in plain Metro Ethernet networks.
PPPoFR
Point-to-Point Protocol over Frame Relay (PPPoE, RFC 1973) is a protocol for encapsulating PPP frames for transmission across Frame Relay connections. The traditional usage of this interface has been on dial-in access servers, to support multiple PPP dial-in clients terminating their connection on a single interface running IP.
Multilink PPP
Multilink PPP (also referred to as MP, MPPP, MLP, or Multilink) provides a method for spreading traffic across multiple physical WAN links while providing packet fragmentation and reassembly, proper sequencing, multivendor interoperability, and load balancing on inbound and outbound traffic. MPPP allows packets to be fragmented. These fragments are sent simultaneously over multiple point-to-point links to the same remote address. The multiple physical links come up in response to a user-defined load threshold. This load can be measured on just inbound traffic, on just outbound traffic, or on either; however, it cannot be measured on the combined load of both inbound and outbound traffic.
Information Model Objects (IMOs)
This section describes the following IMOs:
•PPP Encapsulation (IVcBasedEncapsulation)
•Multilink PPP Interface (IMLPPP)
PPP Encapsulation
The data link layer PPP Encapsulation object is bound by its Containing Termination Points attribute to an ATM/Frame Relay VC Multiplexer object. It is accessed primarily by a network layer object, such as the IP Interface bound by its Contained Connection Termination Points attribute.
Table 23-1 PPP Encapsulation (IVcBasedEncapsulation)
Attribute Name Attribute Description Scheme Polling IntervalVirtual Connection
Virtual connection, if applicable (ATM Virtual Connection, Frame Relay Virtual Connection, or Virtual LAN Interface)
Any
Configuration
Binding Information
Binding information (User Name, and so on)
Any
Configuration
Binding Status
Binding status (Not Bound, Bound)
Any
Configuration
IANA Type
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) type of the sublayer
N/A
N/A
Containing Termination Points
Underlying termination points (connection or physical)
Any
N/A
Contained Connection Termination Points
Bound connection termination points
Any
N/A
Multilink PPP Interface
The Multilink PPP Interface object models a multilink PPP bundle, which is a named virtual interface with multiple member links.
Vendor-Specific Inventory and IMOs
There are no vendor-specific inventory or IMOs for this technology.
Service Alarms
The following alarm is supported for this technology: