Table Of Contents

Point-to-Point Protocol and
High-Level Data Link Control

Technology Description

PPP

HDLC

Inventory and Information Model Objects (IMOs)

PPP Encapsulation

HDLC Encapsulation

Vendor-Specific Inventory and IMOs

Network Topology

Service Alarms

Point-to-Point Protocol and
High-Level Data Link Control

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This chapter describes the level of support that Cisco ANA provides for PPP and HDLC, as follows:

•Technology Description

•Inventory and Information Model Objects (IMOs)

•Vendor-Specific Inventory and IMOs

•Network Topology

•Service Alarms

Technology Description

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.

HDLC

HDLC is a group of data link (Layer 2) protocols used to transmit synchronous data packets between point-to-point nodes. Data is organized into addressable frames. This format has been used for other multipoint-to-multipoint protocols, and inspired the HDLC-like framing protocol described in RFC 1662.

HDLC uses a zero-insertion/deletion process (bit stuffing) to ensure that the bit pattern of the delimiter flag does not occur in the fields between flags. The HDLC frame is synchronous and therefore relies on the physical layer (Layer 1) to clock and synchronize frame transmission and reception.

Inventory and Information Model Objects (IMOs)

This section describes the following IMOs:

•PPP Encapsulation (IVcBasedEncapsulation)

•HDLC Encapsulation (IEncapsulation)

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 7-1 PPP Encapsulation (IVcBasedEncapsulation)

Attribute Name	Attribute Description	Scheme	Polling Interval
Virtual Connection	Virtual connection, if applicable (ATM Virtual Connection, Frame Relay Virtual Connection, or Virtual LAN Interface)	Any	Configuration
Binding Information	Binding information (User Name, ...)	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

HDLC Encapsulation

The data link layer HDLC 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 7-2 HDLC Encapsulation (IEncapsulation) 

Attribute Name	Attribute Description	Scheme	Polling Interval
Binding Information	Binding information (User Name, ...)	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

Vendor-Specific Inventory and IMOs

There are no vendor-specific inventory or IMOs for this technology.

Network Topology

Cisco ANA performs discovery of PPP and HDLC topologies by searching for the local IP subnet in any one-hop-away remote sides of the PPP or HDLC interfaces, respectively. In particular, it compares the local and remote IP subnets gathered from the upper IP Network layers.

Service Alarms

There are no faults or alarms specific to this technology.

For detailed information about alarms and correlation, see the Cisco Active Network Abstraction 3.6.6 User Guide.