Capwap Mailing List: RE: Certificates, Discovery Request/Reply, and validation.

[Pat R. Calhoun (pcalhoun]

>  I glanced thru the two RFCs for L2TP and PPTP, they are basically call 
> state control and management protocols, providing IP-based tunneling in 
> L2 domain. I could not see how such things could be achieved, e.g. by 
> defining a MIB?

Having more than just glanced at the protocol (I was one of the authors of the 
original PPTP protocol way back), and having implemented L2TP, I frankly 
disagree.

The LWAPP protocol *does* tunneling. It has a protocol to setup tunnels, and to 
"configure" the endpoint, much in the same way that L2TP can send MTU and 
framing information from the PNS to the PAC (well, the L2TP equivalents 
anyways).

So, please, explain how this is different? I can cut and paste from the L2TP 
RFC if this makes it easier, but I'm sure you can find that info as well.

> However, it seems that most of what LWAPP tries to do could probably be 
> achieved by way of SNMP set operations, so this should probably be the 
> basis of discussion in this ML.

ok, let's tunnels packets within SNMP. Great idea.

PatC