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Network Working Group E. Harslem Request for Comments: 40 J. Heafner RAND March 1970 More Comments on the Forthcoming Protocol We have recently discussed NWG/RFC Nos. 36 and 39 with Steve Crocker,

UCLA. Steve has asked that we elaborate on the errors, queries, and

HOST status that were mentioned in NWG/RFC #39. Please voice your opinions soon in order to affect the forthcoming protocol specifications. ERROR MESSAGES <ERR> <Code> <Command length> <Command in error> <Code> is an eight-bit field that specifies the error type. The assigned codes are shown below. <Command length> is a 16-bit integer that indicates the length of the <Command in error> in bits. The <Command in error> is the spurious command. The ranges of <Code> are shown below in hexidecimal. 00 Unspecified error types 10-0F Resource errors 10-1F Status errors 20-2F Content errors 30-3F Unused Specific values of <Code> are shown below with their meaning. <Code> value Semantics 00 Unspecified errors. 01 Request for an invalid resource. 02 Request for an exhausted resource, try later. 03-0F Unused. 10 Invalid <RSM>, i.e., link connected but unblocked. 11 Invalid <SPD>. 12 Invalid <ASG>, i.e., connected but no <RDY> received. [Page 1]
<Code> value Semantics 13 Message received on blocked link. 14-1F Unused. 20 Unknown command code. 21 Message received on unconnected link. 22 Invalid <RFC>. 23 Invalid <CLS>. 24 Invalid <RSM>, i.e., link not connected. 25 Invalid <FND>. 26 Invalid <END>. 27 Invalid <RDY>. 28 Invalid <ASG>, i.e., not connected. 29-2F Unused. 30-FF Unused. QUERIES <QRY> <My Socket> or <RPY> <Your Socket> <Text> The <QRY> is the query indicated in NWG/RFC #39 and <RPY> is the reply. The format of <Text> is shown below; also refer to NWG/RFC #36, p. 3. <Text>::= <16 bit count of relevant connection table entries> <relevant connection table entries> <relevant connection table entries>::= <relevant connection table entries> <a relevant connection table entry> <a relevant connection table entry> <a relevant connection table entry>::= <local socket> <foreign socket> <link> <connection state> <flow state and buffer control> <reconnection control state> [Page 2]
HOST STATUS <NOP> An NCP may be up, down, pending, etc. When an NCP changes its state to UP it should send a <NOP> to each remote NCP which indicates the NCP is available. The sending NCP can then construct a vector of HOST status from the RFNMs it receives. An NCP receiving a <NOP> can update the availability of the sending NCP in its HOST status vector. [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by Richard Ames 6/97 ] [Page 3]