RE: COPS : Clarifications

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Please refer to the following reply from David Durham (I hope it's okay with
David to be quoted without permission! ) to the same question a while back.

Regards,
   --Probal.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Davidson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:58 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: COPS : Clarifications
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	In section 2.3 "Communication" of the COPS protocol 
> (RFC 2748) the
> following
> sentences can be encountered:
> 
> "The COPS protocol uses a single persistent TCP connection 
> between the PEP
> and a remote PDP"
> 
> a little later in the same section":
> 
> "If a single PEP can support multiple client-types, it may 
> send multiple
> Client-Open messages, each specifying a particular 
> client-type to a PDP over
> one or more TCP
> connections".
> 
> The question is: How many TCP connections are there ? A single one or
> multiples ?
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> Best Regards,
> Dan
>