At 12:24 AM 6/17/00 -0500, Kain wrote: >What I think you're thinking of is just IP. You probably haven't been seeing
Definately not IP, IP just gets your packets there and back. >Now, if you actually mean "what octets mean and do", those are actually defined higher than TCP, and are laid out in the specs for those respective protocols. What I meant by that was what "octets mean and do" in terms of establishing and maintaining the connection. Like, what octets are exchanged that tell each machine, "yes the connection is established". That protocol has a name. >Telnet Protocol: RFC 854/855 >FTP: RFC 959 >TFTP: RFC 1350 >POP3: RFC 1939 >HTTP/1.1: RFC 2068 Right, those are the high level protocols. But they all establish the same type of connection. Maybe if I explained how this came about. I was explaining to a friend how you can telnet to any network service and use that service. Like, you can telnet to a web server on port 80, manually type the get commands and get the document. I said that this was because they all use the same connection type. But I don't know what the name of that connection type is. Maybe it's just a "TCP connection", does what I'm talking about have an RFC? There's no way I'm reading through all 2500 RFC's. :) >At 11:14 AM 6/18/00 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>LCP? Link control protocol I think that has to do with PPP. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | -=I T ' S P R I N C I P L E T H A T C O U N T S=- | |=- -=ALAN KEYES FOR PRESIDENT=- -=| | Balanced Budgets Personal Freedoms Morality Lower Tax | |=-- http://www.Keyes2000.com. --=| +———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+
