Re: RFC 4666 on Signaling System 7 (SS7)Message TransferPart 3 (MTP3) - User Adaptation Layer (M3UA)

Lincoln,

A properly engineered network takes failure into account, rather
than denying its existence.

Nevertheless, the CORID procedures also address divering traffic
for maintenance reasons, not just failure.

--brian

Haresign Lincoln wrote:                     (Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:58:38)
> Tolga,
> 
> We have run in to some switches where the SCTP is located on NIC cards.
> The NIC cards bottleneck.  So they use multiple NICs to get improved
> performance.  It has nothing to do with the LAN/WAN itself.
> 
> Are you denying below that SS7 links failed?  In a properly engineered
> network, and SS7 link should never fail.  But they do.
> 
> In a properly engineered IP network, associations should never fail.
> But they do.
> 
> Lincoln

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