3.1 DCE Packet Headers

Object RPC sits entirely on top of DCE RPC. The following list describes the elements of ORPC that are specified above and beyond DCE RPC.

• The object id field of the header must contain the IPID.
  
  
• The interface id of the RPC header must contain the IID, even though it is not needed given the IPID. This allows ORPC to sit on top of DCE RPC. An unmodified DCE RPC implementation will correctly dispatch based on IID and IPID. An optimized RPC need only dispatch based on IPID.
  
  
• An IPID uniquely identifies a particular interface on a particular object on a machine. The converse is not true; a particular interface on a particular object may be represented by multiple IPIDs. IPIDs are unique on their OXID. IPIDs may be reused, however reuse of IPIDs should be avoided.
  
  
• Datagram, maybe, and idempotent calls are all allowed in ORPC.
  
  
• Interface pointers may not be passed on maybe or idempotent calls.
  
  
• Datagram broadcasts are not allowed in ORPC.
  
  
• Faults are returned in the stub fault field of the DCE RPC fault packet.  Any 32 bit value may be returned. Only RPC_E_VERSION_MISMATCH is pre-specified.
  
  
• DCE RPC cancel is supported.
  
  
• All interface version numbers must be 0.0.
  
  
• The transfer syntax GUID is {8a885d04-1ceb-11c9-9fe8-08002b104860}, version 2 (0x02).