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	Title		: Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (Version 3) Graceful Restart
	Author(s)	: S. Galtzur
	Filename	: draft-galtzur-l2tpext-gr-02.txt
	Pages		: 10
	Date		: 2004-10-28

This document describes a mechanism that helps to minimize the 
negative effects on L2TP traffic caused by L2TP Control Connection 
Endpoint (LCCE) control plane restart, specifically by the restart of 
its control protocol component, on LCCEs that are capable of 
preserving the L2TP forwarding component ( a.k.a. the L2TP data 
plane) across the restart. 
The mechanism described in this document is applicable to all LCCEs, 
both those with the ability to preserve Forwarding State during the 
control plane (CP) restart and those without (although the latter 
needs to implement only a subset of the mechanism described in this 
document).

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