Re: SCTP config in M2UA ASP redundancy scenario

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]>
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Sunita,

Sunita Bhagwat wrote:                                               (Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:09:41)
> Hi,
> An SGP supporting M2UA acts as SCTP server and the ASP initiates SCTP
> associations such that the 2 ASPs in a 1+1 redundancy scenario use the
> same source IP/port (assuming no multi-homing for simplicity).
> 
> SGP (IP1/port1) --assoc1--- ASP1 (IP2/port2)--+ AS
>      (IP3/port3) --assoc2--- ASP2 (IP2/port2)--|
> 
> Here the SGP has 2 associations to the same remote IP/port on the AS. I
> guess this should be possible, but does this configuration make sense?

Sure it does.

> Since ASP redundancy needs to be supported, does it make sense to have
> ASP2 on the same network/subnet as ASP1?

Sure it does.  Although the situtation does not help network redundancy,
that can be acheived by other means.  Application redundancy is achieved.

--brian

> 
> Thanks,
> Sunita
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