[openbeosnetteam] Re: PPP up/opened

> > 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?
>
> The client does not send a conf-req, ever. (more or less) It only
> replies to them, and the server modifies its conf-req each round until
> the client accepts them. Upon receipt of a conf-ack, the server assumes
> that those options are in effect. Upon transmission of one, the client
> does the same thing. conf-ack packets are *only* sent as the last step
> of the process.

Oh, and if the client wants to set its own MTU it has to reply with a
conf-nak and add the MTU value to this conf-nak?
I think I have understood it. :)

Waldemar

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