Re: Couple of question regarding M2PA

"Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:53:08 -0600

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Dario,

Dario wrote:                                                         (Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:57:38)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a couple of questions regarding M2PA - precisely for section 4.1.7.
> "SCTP Association Problems":
> how M2PA shall act on the following cases:
> 
> - reception of Restart primitive from SCTP

Implementation dependent.

> - reception of Network Status Change primitive from SCTP

Implementation dependent.

> 
> Should M2PA consider Link to be in  Out of Service state when those events
> happen?

Implementation dependent.

> 
> Another question related to SCTP used for M2PA links: how the SCTP Shutdown
> fits into M2PA?

Same way it fits into any orderly shutdown of an association: to ensure that
all sent data reaches the other side before removing the association.

--brian

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Brian F. G. Bidulock
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