[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: tcp connection



Are we talking about the 'TCP 3-way handshake'?

--
Kevin Blackham                                               801-539-0852
spin@xmission.com                                            877-964-7746
XMission Internet, Salt Lake City, Utah


On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:47:25PM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote:
> At 02:25 PM 6/20/00 +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> >They don't use NVT.  The TELNET protocol is not running on (for example) a
> >web server.
> 
> Yeah but the NVT settings have to be negotiated for each side to talk to
> each other.  If I telnet to an Apache webserver on port 80, my telnet is
> going to negotiate NVT with whatever's on the other end.  Both sides have to
> agree to establish the connection.  Therefore, either Apache or something
> below Apache in the stack has to know about NVT.  Otherwise Apache would
> tell me to go take a flying leap if I tried to telnet to it.  What is my
> telnet client negotiating with in this case???
> 
> 
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
> |        -=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.                  --=|
> +???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????+
> 
> 00000100
> 
> 
> --  
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-isp-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
> 



Reply to: