Re: Traffiic Mode : Help Please

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sigtran
Organization http://www.openss7.org/
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ramma,

Ramma wrote:                                                         (Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:51:51)
> 
>    Hi Brain,
>    Thank you very much for replying.
>    I  am  struck  in  a  situation where I have a node (My node) which is
>    configured  as an AS and have the limitation that it can have only one
>    ASP  serving this AS and the traffic mode is always override. There is
>    no  way  to  configure the localAS traffic mode but you can set up the
>    traffic mode for the remote AS.

Sounds like an extremely limited implementation.

>    Using  this  node  I want to talk to a peer node which have 2 ASPs and
>    these  2  ASPs  have  to  work in loadshare mode. Any hence I have the
>    configuration as mentioned in my previous mail.
>    My questions would be
>    1. Is there anything "illegal" with respect to the standards regarding
>    this  configuration.  I  cant  find  anything in the RFC which forbids
>    this.

There is nothing prohibiting it, in fact there is no text restricting how an
APS distributes traffic over SGP.

>    2.  Is  it  mandory  that if I am working in a particular traffic mode
>    (say loadshare), my peer should work in the same traffic mode ?

I would say that is not necessarily the case.  However, no implementation is
required to support all traffic modes in all combinations.  I would suggest
discussing it with that implementation's creator.

>    With respect to question number 2, if I have a situation where I am an
>    AS  with  2  ASPs  working  in  loadshare  mode  and I am talking to 2
>    different  AS  --  one  of  which is working in loadshare mode and the
>    other one in override. Cant I do that ???

Again there is nothing in the spec restricting it; however, not all
implementations must support all modes in all combinations.

>    Thank you very much for your time and I really appreciate your help.

I think your difficulties lie with specific implementations rather that with
the specification.  You would probably get better traction by talking to the
vendors of the implementations.

--brian

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Brian F. G. Bidulock
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