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<reference anchor='RFC2661'>

<front>
<title abbrev='L2TP'>Layer Two Tunneling Protocol "L2TP"</title>
<author initials='W.' surname='Townsley' fullname='W. Mark Townsley'>
<organization>Cisco Systems</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>7025 Kit Creek Road</street>
<city>Research Triangle Park</city>
<region>NC</region>
<code>27709</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>townsley@cisco.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='A.' surname='Valencia' fullname='A. Valencia'>
<organization>cisco Systems</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>170 West Tasman Drive</street>
<city>San Jose</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>95134-1706</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>vandys@cisco.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='A.' surname='Rubens' fullname='A. Rubens'>
<organization>Ascend Communications</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>1701 Harbor Bay Parkway</street>
<city>Alameda</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>94502</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>acr@del.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='G.' surname='Pall' fullname='Gurdeep Pall'>
<organization>Microsoft Corporation</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>One Microsoft Way</street>
<city>Redmond</city>
<region>WA</region>
<code>98052</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>gurdeep@microsoft.com</email></address></author>
<author initials='G.' surname='Zorn' fullname='Glen Zorn'>
<organization>Microsoft Corporation</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>One Microsoft Way</street>
<city>Redmond</city>
<region>WA</region>
<code>98052</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>gwz@acm.org</email></address></author>
<author initials='B.' surname='Palter' fullname='Bill Palter'>
<organization>RedBack Networks, Inc</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>1389 Moffett Park Drive</street>
<city>Sunnyvale</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>94089</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>palter@zev.net</email></address></author>
<date month='August' year='1999' />
<abstract>
<t>This document describes the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). STD 51, RFC 1661 specifies multi-protocol access viaPPP. L2TP facilitates the tunneling of PPP packets across an intervening network in a way that is as transparent as possible to both end-users and applications.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='2661' />
</reference>
