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L2TP protocol
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L2TP protocol

Author : Étienne GALLET DE SANTERRE

Publication date: November 10, 2006 | Lire en français

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1. History

The L2TP protocol was developed by Microsoft and Cisco Systems, who, recognizing the respective advantages of their tunneling solutions, worked to create a new protocol combining the best of the two protocols PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunnel Protocol, from Microsoft) and L2F (Layer Two Forwarding, from Cisco). It is from these two protocols, briefly presented in this section, that the L2TP tunneling protocol was born.

1.1 Point-to-Point Tunnel Protocol: PPTP [RFC2637]

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