[ale] OT: Question about Telnet

[Michael Kachline]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:


> If I understand this correctly, my dumb NVT's responses should be as
> follows:
> 
> DO: Reply with WONT
> WILL: Reply with DONT <--???
> WONT, DONT: Ignore
> 
> If anyone can clarify this I'd be much obliged.

	Kevin,


	I believe that you are correct. Looking through some
older telnet client sources which I had written, I also see "DO,WONT",
"WILL,DONT". I think I recall gaining this knowledge from Stevens'
"Network Programming" book.



						- Mike
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