disconnect request

This header is used to send a disconnect request to a target peer. The sender uses this header to tell the receiver that he wants to close the connection.

header format (flag=8)

source	flag	ttl	endNode	nextNode	sourcePeerId	targetPeerId

• • | is the delimiter which is inserted between each value
• • source contains the address of the node which has created the message (e.g. 0131)
• • flag contains the integer value 7
• • ttl count of remaining hops before the message will be discarded
  • start value = 5
  • each sending node decreases the value by one
  • if the value is zero the node, which has received the message, still processes the message but does not forward it
  • endNode contains the destination address
  • sourcePeerId alias of peer which has sent the connect request
  • targetPeerId alias of the destination peer