Re: M2PA: Link alignment when proving omitted

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

Soni Goel wrote:                                                      (Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:57:24)
> Hi,
> 
> This is regarding the Link alignment when proving is omitted. 
> As per message flow given below, link is not able to come in-service
> because M2PA-2 receives Link status Align after sending Link Status
> Ready.
> 
> I would suggest M2PA-2 to resend Ready on receiving Align, while timer
> T1 is running. This is as per following statement in RFC 4165, Section
> 4.1.3 Link Alignment -
> "If the Link Status Ready message is sent, then M2PA MAY send additional
> Link Status Ready messages while timer T1 is running."
> 
> Please let me know your feedback.
> 
> 
>   MTP3-1      M2PA-1      SCTP-1      SCTP-2      M2PA-2      MTP3-2
>   ----        ----        ----        ----        ----        ----
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    Start       .           .           .           .           .
>    ------------>           .           .           .           .
>    .           Associate   .           .           .           .
>    .           ------------>           .           .           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .           .           (SCTP Association       .           .
>    .           .            procedure)             .           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .           Communication Up        Communication Up        .
>    .           <------------           ------------>           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .           Link Status Out of Service          .           .
>    .           ------------------------------------>           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .           Link Status Alignment   .           .           .
>    .           ------------------------------------>           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .           Start timer T2          .           .           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .           .          Link Status Out of Service           .
>    .           <------------------------------------           .
>    .           Link Status Alignment   .           .           .
>    .           ------------------------------------>           .
>    .           .          Link Status Out of Service           .
>    .           <------------------------------------           .
>    .           Link Status Alignment   .           .           .
>    .           ------------------------------------>           .
>    .           .       Link Status Out of Service(2)           .
>    .           <------------------------------------           .
>    .           .           .           .           .       Start
>    .           .           .           .           <------------
>    .           .           . Link Status Alignment(2)          .
>    .           <------------------------------------           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .      Link Status Alignment(response to Out of Service(2)) .
>    .           ------------------------------------>           .

OTOH, why is M2PA-1 sending LSA "in response to Out of Service"?
LSA is sent in response to "Start".  Make M2PA-1 ignore LSOOS in
Not-Aligned state.

--brian

>    .           .           .           .   Start timer T1
>    .           .           .    Link Status Ready(2)           .
>    .           <------------------------------------           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .           Stop timer T2           .           .           .
>    .        Link Status Alignment(response to Alignment(2))    .
>    .           ------------------------------------>           .
>    .           .           .           .  Link fails due to    .
>    .           .           .           .  Alignment received in.
>    .           .           .           .  Ready state          .
>    .           .           .           .                       .
>    .           .          Link Status Out of Service           .
>    .           <------------------------------------           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .      Link inservice(received Ready(2))        .           .
>    .      Link Status Ready(response to Ready(2))  .           .
>    .           ------------------------------------>           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .      Link Failure (received Out of Service from M2PA-2)   .
>    .           Link Status Out of Service          .           .
>    .           ------------------------------------>           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
>    .           .           .           .           .           .
> 
> Thanks,
> Soni
> 
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