MM1 via WSP - responder re-transmits Ack

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Gary Chapman
Unregistered guest
Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 04:14 am:   

Hi all,

I'm trying to send a large message via MM1 (WSP). After I send the 2nd packet, the responder re-transmits the Ack for the first packet. Can anyone suggest a reason for this?

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Connect (send):
0A 00 00 12 01 10 0A 04 04 80 8F F8 00 04 81 8F F8 00 80 BE 80 80

Connect Reply (recv):
12 80 00 02 87 46 00 00

Connect Reply Ack (send):
18 00 00

Packet 0 (send):
0C 00 01 12 60 22 20 68 74 ...

Packet 0 Ack (recv):
98 80 01 19 00

Packet 1 (send):
2C 00 01 01 ...

Packet 0 Ack again (recv):
99 80 01 19 00 <--- Why would the responder re-transmit an Ack? Is it expecting me to Ack the original Ack?!

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Thanks,

Gary
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Board Administrator
Username: Bryce

Post Number: 3809
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 06:00 pm:   

You're doing a segmented invoke.

The responder is telling you that the last packet of the segmented invoke that it received and understood was 00.

Either the responder did not receive your packet 1 ... or it did not understand it. Therefore it is resending the last ack, in case you did not receive it.

This is standard SAR behaviour.

-bn