Re: ASPs Load sharing traffic
"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
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Saraswati, Please see comments below... Saraswati Bose wrote: (Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:31:31) > > Brian, > > Please answer the below queries related to ASPs load sharing > traffic within a AS. > > > > 1. Which parameter can be used for IUA for load sharing traffic on a > round robin basis between multiple active ASPs within the AS like SLS > in M3UA and SSN in SUA? DLCI? > > > > 2. What exact parameters can be kept common for the multiple ASPs > sharing traffic? Should it be the routing tables, RCs etc? Suggest. > Any parameter con be kept common, but none are required to be kept common. Good sense would be to keep NA and RC/IID common across SGP-ASP relations. The RFCs indicate this. > > > 3. Will the multiple ASPs sharing traffic be uniquely identified by > SCTP association or is there ant other parameters also? > ASP Identifier. > > > 4. Can we opt for 1+0 model with load share traffic mode or should it > be treated as a invalid configuration? Sure, it is a valid configuration. It is not precluded by the RFCs. > > > > 5. I think only redundant ASPs can load share traffic. > If there is only one ASP, loadsharing is simply a matter of routing all messages to the same ASP. There is little difference between one ASP active for a loadsharing AS and a 1+0 configuration. > > > As per the RFCs the option may lie with SG whether it will or won't > distribute traffic to redundant ASPs (traffic mode = 2) depending on > availability of the ASP the SG is currently communicating with. > > Tell me what condition apply for the above type communciation? How about ASP availability to the distributing SGP? ;) --brian -- Brian F. G. Bidulock [email protected] http://www.openss7.org/