Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) Technical Specifications

Updated June, 1996

Kory Hamzeh/Ascend Communications
Gurdeep Singh Pall/Microsoft Corporation
William Verthein/U.S. Robotics
Jeff Taarud/3Com Corporation
W. Andrew Little/ECI Telematics

Introduction

This document describes the Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) developed by the PPTP Forum. The forum consists of the following organizations: Ascend Communications, Microsoft Corporation, 3Com/Primary Access, ECI Telematics, and U.S. Robotics.

The PPTP protocol is designed to perform the following tasks:

Query the status of Comm Servers
Provide In-Band management
Allocate channels and place outgoing calls
Notify NT Server on incoming calls
Transmit and Receive User Data with flow control in both directions
Notify NT Server on disconnected calls.

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