Re: M3UA notify message
"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.sigtran |
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| Organization | http://www.openss7.org/ |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Tolga, Tolga Asveren wrote: (Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:12:12) > > > > ASP1 ------------- SGP1 (sctp association established and ASP1 inactive) > > > > > > ASP2 ------------- SGP2 (sctp association established and ASP2 inactive) > [TOLGA]One would need associations between ASP1/SGP2 and ASP2/SGP1. I don't > think this is something horrible, on the contrary, I believe this is a good > thing to provide host redundancy. Otherwise, during host failures, there > would be internal traffic routing unnecessarily, e.g. consider > n=1/loadsharing traffic mode with your diagram, if ASP1 fails, all SS7 > traffic from SGP1 first needs to be routed to SGP2, so that it can reach > ASP2, if there were an assocaition from ASP2 to SGP1, this wouldn't be > necessary-. There has never been a requirement for full-mesh associations in the UAs. (And associations _can_ fail.) --brian -- Brian F. G. Bidulock [email protected] http://www.openss7.org/