Re: Thank you.

Subject: Re: Thank you.
From: Sak Wathanasin (sw@network-analysis.ltd.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2001 - 18:06:07 EDT

In reply to Thomas Kaiser's message of the 05/09/2001 at 23:46 +0200,

>Can you explain this a bit please? Using AFP 2.1/2.2, I thought that the
>afp-client sends out a FPGetSrvrInfo request. The afp-server answers a lot
>of stuff (its name, the uams it supports, etc. and finally a list of
>connection methods the servers supports).
>
>Each entry in this list will include
>
>- AFP over AppleTalk or TCP
>- address type (ip address + port or FQDN + port or AppleTalk address)
>- the real address depending on the address type above
>
>So the afp server provides _every_ connection method it has been configured
>to publish.
>
>> If the server responds with an IP address, then the client establishes a
>> connection to the server using AFP on DSI/TCP/IP.
>
>I thought that this is the afp-clients decision if the afp connection can be
>established by more than one method?

This is exactly what happens; you are right in every detail. I was
tracing down a problem where the client was always connecting via
AppleTalk instead of TCP/IP and have a bunch of pkt traces showing
exactly this sequence of events. 

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