Re: single/double exchange mode doubt

"Ankit Kumar Sharma" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sigtran
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/10/07, Brian F. G. Bidulock <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ankit,
>
> Ankit Kumar Sharma wrote:                                            (Thu,
> 05 Jul 2007 15:43:53)
> >
> >    Hi all,
>
> >    I  have  a  doubt  over  single/double  exchange  mode.  When  we  say
> >    single/double exchange mode then do we mean:
> >    a)  it  is  a property of ASP. For all ASs served by this ASP, my
> mode
> >    would be either single or double exchange, but not both.
>
> ASPs do not do single or double exchanges: IPSPs do.


Agreed. Thanks for pointing out this mistake...

>    b)  it  is  a  property  of  AS. For one AS, an ASP could behave as in
> >    single exchange and for other it could behave as a double exchange.
>
> No.


If we look at the IPSP SE/DE communication in sections 5.6.1 and 5.6.2 of
RFC 4666, behavior of IPSP SE and DE is almost same till ASPSM messages are
exchanged. Now, when we exchange ASPTM message(ASPAC), then  there is a
distinction between SE and DE exchange model.
If I am not wrong then ASPTM messages are more specific to AS and hence we
could say that SE/DE is a property of AS. Peer could be configured in such a
way that after recieving ASP-ACTIVE with RC=x, it should make its local IPSP
active with RC=x(SE mode), whereas if it receives RC=y in ASPAC then it
just acknowledges the ASPAC message, as in DE mode.

>    Please look at the example below:
> >            ----------                       ------------
> >            |ASP 1|----------------------|ASP A |
> >            ----------                       -----------
> >    ASP  1  is serving AS 1 with routing context 1. ASP A is serving AS
> A,
> >    with  routing  context 1. This configuration is running fine in
> single
> >    exchange mode.
> >    Now,  I want to add one more AS at ASP 1, say AS 2. Routing context
> of
> >    this  AS  would  be 2 and I want to run it in double exchange mode.
> Do
> >    someone see any discrepancy in this configuration?
>
> ASPs do not communicate directly with each other in this fashion: IPSPs
> do.


Why do we send ASP-Active ,when running in IPSP mode, when we do not have
ANY ASP at both ends?...we should send IPSP-Active...:-)

The RFCs state that both IPSPs must operate in the same mode for all
> messages.

--brian
>
>
> --
> Brian F. G. Bidulock
> [email protected]
> http://www.openss7.org/


Cheers,
Ankit

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