SDCP, PPP Serial Data Control Protocol

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Description:

Protocol suite:PPP.
Type:PPP network control protocol.
PPP Protocol:0x8049.
Links: PPP Assigned numbers.

Used for establishing, configuring and disabling the SDTP modules on both ends of the PPP link.

RFC 1963 page 11:

SDCP uses the same packet exchange mechanism and state machine as the Link Control Protocol. SDCP packets may not be exchanged until PPP has reached the Network-Layer Protocol phase. SDCP packets received before this phase is reached SHOULD be silently discarded.

RFC 1963 page 3:

Before any SDTP packets may be communicated, PPP must reach the Network-Layer Protocol phase, and the SDTP Control Protocol must reach the Opened state.


PPP header SDCP header Data :::

SDCP header:

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Code Identifier Length
Data :::

Code. 8 bits.
Specifies the function to be performed.

CodeDescriptionReferences
0Vendor Specific.RFC 2153
1Configure-Request. 
2 Configure-Ack.  
3 Configure-Nak.  
4 Configure-Reject.  
5 Terminate-Request.  
6 Terminate-Ack.  
7 Code-Reject.  

Identifier. 8 bits.
Used to match requests and replies.

Length. 16 bits.
Size of the packet including the header.

Data. Variable length.
Zero or more bytes of data as indicated by the Length. This field may contain one or more Options.


SDCP Configuration Options.

00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
Option Length
Data :::

Option. 8 bits.

OptionLengthDescriptionReferences
13Packet-Format. RFC 1963
2 3 Header-Type. RFC 1963
3 3 Length-Field-Present. RFC 1963
4 3 Multi-Port. RFC 1963
5 4 Transport-Mode. RFC 1963
6 7 Maximum-Frame-Size. RFC 1963
7 3 Allow-Odd-Frames. RFC 1963
8 4 FCS-Type. RFC 1963
95Flow-Expiration-Time. RFC 1963

Length. 8 bits.

Data. Variable length.


Glossary:


RFCs:

[RFC 1963] PPP Serial Data Transport Protocol (SDTP).


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