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RFC 1831 - 7. RPC PROTOCOL REQUIREMENTS
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7. RPC PROTOCOL REQUIREMENTS
The RPC protocol must provide for the following:
- Unique specification of a procedure to be called.
- Provisions for matching response messages to request messages.
- Provisions for authenticating the caller to service and
vice-versa.
Besides these requirements, features that detect the following are
worth supporting because of protocol roll-over errors, implementation
bugs, user error, and network administration:
- RPC protocol mismatches.
- Remote program protocol version mismatches.
- Protocol errors (such as misspecification of a procedure's
parameters).
- Reasons why remote authentication failed.
- Any other reasons why the desired procedure was not called.
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RFC 1831 - 7. RPC PROTOCOL REQUIREMENTS