Re: M3UA notify message

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sigtran
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

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