Layer 2 Forwarding Protocol

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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An Internet protocol (originally developed by Cisco Corporation) that uses tunneling of PPP over IP to create a virtual extension of a dial-up link across a network, initiated by the dial-up server and transparent to the dial-up user.

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Classifications

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Entity Type

Network92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: L2F
plural: Layer 2 Forwarding Protocols
possessive: Layer 2 Forwarding Protocol's
pluralpossessive: Layer 2 Forwarding Protocols'

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