Penguin

An Acronym for Link Control Protocol.

Used by PPP for negotiating various characteristics of a connection.

For example (taken from an ADSL router's log file)

Connection Diagnostic History PPP (vcc1) PPP:-> Establishing Link on permanent connection service

  • LCP We processed peer's requests:

  • max-recv-unit, mru 9178 in excess of max of 8200 (nak)

  • auth-type, auth (ack)

  • magic-num, 0x42312339 (ack)

  • LCP Peer acknowledged our requests:

  • magic-num, 0x60ff715f

  • LCP We processed peer's requests:

  • max-recv-unit, mru 9178 in excess of max of 8200 (nak)

  • auth-type, auth (ack)

  • magic-num, 0xf04cafb (ack)

  • LCP We processed peer's requests:

  • max-recv-unit, mru 8200 (ack)

  • auth-type, auth (ack)

  • magic-num, 0xf04cafb (ack)

  • LCP Peer acknowledged our requests:

  • magic-num, 0x60ff715f

  • Peer reports successful PAP authentication

IPCP:-> Resettings options: ip (0.0.0.0), dns (0.0.0.0, 0.0.0.0)


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