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TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview - IBM Redbooks

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22.14.1 Terminology<br />

Before describing the protocol, we provide a definition of some L2TP terminology<br />

► L2TP access concentrator (LAC)<br />

A device attached to one or more public switched telephone network (PSTN)<br />

or Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) lines capable of h<strong>and</strong>ling both<br />

the PPP operation <strong>and</strong> L2TP protocol. The LAC implements the media over<br />

which L2TP operates. L2TP passes the traffic to one or more L2TP servers<br />

(LNS).<br />

► L2TP network server (LNS)<br />

An LNS operates on any platform that can be a PPP endstation. The LNS<br />

h<strong>and</strong>les the server side of the L2TP protocol. Because L2TP relies only on<br />

the single media over which L2TP tunnels arrive, the LNS can have only a<br />

single LAN or WAN interface, yet is still able to terminate calls arriving from<br />

any PPP interfaces supported by a LAC, such as async, synchronous, ISDN,<br />

V.120, <strong>and</strong> so on.<br />

► Network access servers (NAS)<br />

A device providing temporary, on dem<strong>and</strong> network access to users. This<br />

access is point-to-point using PSTN or ISDN lines.<br />

► Session (Call)<br />

L2TP creates a session when an end-to-end PPP connection is attempted<br />

between a dial-in user <strong>and</strong> the LNS, or when an outbound call is initiated. The<br />

datagrams for the session are sent over the tunnel between the LAC <strong>and</strong> the<br />

LNS. The LNS <strong>and</strong> LAC maintain the state information for each user attached<br />

to a LAC.<br />

► Tunnel<br />

A tunnel is defined by an LNS-LAC pair. The tunnel carries PPP datagrams<br />

between the LAC <strong>and</strong> the LNS. A single tunnel can multiplex many sessions.<br />

A control connection operating over the same tunnel controls the<br />

establishment, release, <strong>and</strong> maintenance of all sessions <strong>and</strong> of the tunnel<br />

itself.<br />

► Attribute value air (AVP)<br />

A uniform method of encoding message types <strong>and</strong> bodies. This method<br />

maximizes the extensibility while permitting interpretability of L2TP.<br />

876 <strong>TCP</strong>/<strong>IP</strong> <strong>Tutorial</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Overview</strong>

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