Displaying PPP Status

Fields in the IPCP Status Display

The following table explains the fields in the IPCP status display:

Field

Description

 

 

State

The IPCP state as defined in RFC 1331. The possible states

 

are Initial, Starting, Closed, Stopped, Closing, Stopping,

 

Req Sent, Ack-Rcvd, Ack-Sent, Opened, and DHCP Req.

 

DHCP Req (which is not part of RFC 1331) indicates the

 

negotiations are waiting for DHCP to assign an IP address.

Negotiation Time

The number of seconds required by the PPP negotiation

 

procedure the last time IPCP negotiated.

Since Open

The number of seconds since IPCP last attempted to

 

negotiate IP over the link.

Failure Reason

Provides a brief reason if IPCP cannot negotiate IP over the

 

link.

Negotiate

Indicates if address negotiation should take place. This

Address

characteristic is disabled in this release.

IP Address

Local — The IP address that the access server is using for

 

itself on the link. This value is the address used with the

 

access server’s own Ethernet.

 

Remote — The value that the access server is using to

 

identify the peer on the link.

Compress

Indicates whether compression is turned on.

Header

 

Compress States

Indicates the maximum number of TCP/IP connections that

 

can be compressed at any time.

 

 

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