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In article <BzAwJq.9nM@world.std.com> mdivya@world.std.com (Marigowda Divya) writes:
>This is regarding SDLC Point-to-Point Full Duplex.  Question is,
>if the primary sends a Poll (eg: RR-P) followed by
>couple of I-frames, should the secondary stick with the original
>Nr (at the time the poll was received), or should it keep updating
>the Nr;  correspondingly, should the primary do the same?

In fact numerous implementations including IBM's do seem to change the
Nr value from I frame to adjacent I frame or RR. But your question is
"should they", not "do they" ... that is certainly unclear from the
IBM specs. I would be so bold as to state that a good implementation
should accept such behavior from a peer, but provide an option for
this behavior for local transmissions.

>If this were to be true, then isn't it possible, that within one
>POLL/FINAL exchange, any number of I-frames can be exchanged
>between the Primary and the Secondary.

Yes. Which makes it look very much like an HDLC implementation.
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