Framing
Cisco HDLC frames make use of an alternative framing structure to the standard ISO HDLC. One of the primary reasons for the creation of cHDLC was to address the HDLC protocol's inability to provide multi-protocol support. Thus, cHDLC frames contain a field for identifying the network protocol being encapsulated.
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