Termination of the transport connection.

Variants: 'implicit' or 'explicit'

Network Service Primitives : N-DISCONNECT (implicit variant only) N-DATA

TPDU s and fields used: DR DC

This function is inherent.

In the 'implicit' variant, either transport entity disconnects a transport connection by disconnecting the network connection to which it is assigned.

In the 'explicit' variant, either transport entity transmits a Disconnect Request (DR) TPDU , and the other responds with a Disconnect Confirm (DC) TPDU .

The DR can convey a limited amount (up to 64 octets) of data.


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