[openbeosnetteam] Re: PPP up/opened

> > Then I do not understand the section "3.4. Link Establishment Phase".
> > It
> > first says that there is an exchange of Configure packets. Then it
> > says this
> > exchange is "complete" (does this mean an Ack is needed?) and the
> > "LCP
> > Opened state entered, once a Configure-Ack packet [...] has been both
> > sent
> > and received.". So, what does this "sent and received" mean then? Is
> > this
> > referring to the same machine or does the peer receive the packet?
> > How does
> > the sender know that his packet was received? Through another Ack
> > from the
> > receiver?
>
> Yes, it's talking about the peer. It works like this:
>
> conf-req produces: conf-ack/conf-nack/conf-req
> conf-ack/conf-nack/conf-req produce new conf-req
> repeat until nothing but conf-ack is returned
> -Nathan

The server sends a conf-req and the client can reply with conf-ack. Then the
client sends a conf-req and the server can respond with a conf-nak. Then the
client sends another conf-req and if the server replies with a conf-ack the
connection is established. Is that right?
Why should the client respond with a conf-req? This is confusing. Is it just
that both (client and server) can handle their requests in parallel?

So, I must wait until both ends have sent a conf-ack, right?

Waldemar

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