Re: Re: Traffic handling modes of SGPs

Ilie,

An assumption is not even close to a requirement.

An ASP that cannot accept a connection is underfeatured compared
to one that does.

--brian

Ilie Glib wrote:                                                      (Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:27:31)
> Hello Brian,
> 
> here is a quote from RFC 3868
> "
> 1.3.  Signalling Transport Architecture
> 
> ...
>    In general terms, the SUA architecture can be modeled as a peer-to-
>    peer architecture.  The first section considers the SS7 to IP
>    interworking architectures for connectionless and connection-oriented
>    transport.  For this case, it is assumed that the ASP initiates the
>    establishment of the SCTP association with SG.
> "
> 
> I agree that the last sentence of the quoted paragraph does not say
> "SHOULD", at the same time it looks like ASPs must act as clients for
> establishment of SCTP associations, and there is no statement in the
> RFC that would make ASPs to open listening sockets.
> 
> On 12/2/05, Brian F. G. Bidulock <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ilie,
> >
> > Ilie Glib wrote:                             (Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:44:35)
> > > Brian,
> > >
> > > I am sorry to bore you with this, and perhaps it does not deserve too
> > > much attention, but ASPs which act as clients (according to the RFC
> > > they should do so) would never open a listening socket. Therefore SCTP
> > > INIT from the SGP will be lost.
> >
> > Where does it say that?
> >
> > --brian
> >
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ilie

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