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- NWG/RFC# 748 MRC 1-APR-78 44125
- Telnet Randomly-Lose Option
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- Network Working Group M. Crispin
- Request for Comments 748 SU-AI
- NIC 44125 1 April 1978
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- TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option
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- 1. Command name and code.
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- RANDOMLY-LOSE 256
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- 2. Command meanings.
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- IAC WILL RANDOMLY-LOSE
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- The sender of this command REQUESTS permission to, or confirms
- that it will, randomly lose.
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- IAC WON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE
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- The sender of this command REFUSES to randomly lose.
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- IAC DO RANDOMLY-LOSE
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- The sender of this command REQUESTS that the receiver, or grants
- the receiver permission to, randomly lose.
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- IAC DON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE
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- The command sender DEMANDS that the receiver not randomly lose.
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- 3. Default.
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- WON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE
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- DON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE
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- i.e., random lossage will not happen.
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- 4. Motivation for the option.
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- Several hosts appear to provide random lossage, such as system
- crashes, lost data, incorrectly functioning programs, etc., as part
- of their services. These services are often undocumented and are in
- general quite confusing to the novice user. A general means is
- needed to allow the user to disable these features.
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- NWG/RFC# 748 MRC 1-APR-78 44125
- Telnet Randomly-Lose Option
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- 5. Description of the option.
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- The normal mode does not allow random lossage; therefore the system
- is not allowed to crash, mung user files, etc. If the server wants
- to provide random lossage, it must first ask for permission from the
- user by sending IAC WILL RANDOMLY-LOSE.
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- If the user wants to permit the server to randomly lose, it replys
- with IAC DO RANDOMLY-LOSE. Otherwise it sends IAC DONT
- RANDOMLY-LOSE, and the server is forbidden from randomly losing.
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- Alternatively, the user could request the server to randomly lose, by
- sending IAC DO RANDOMLY-LOSE, and the server will either reply with
- IAC WILL RANDOMLY-LOSE, meaning that it will then proceed to do some
- random lossage (garbaging disk files is recommended for an initial
- implementation). Or, it could send IAC WONT RANDOMLY-LOSE, meaning
- that it insists upon being reliable.
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- Since this is implemented as a TELNET option, it is expected that
- servers which do not implement this option will not randomly lose;
- ie, they will provide 100% reliable uptime.
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