Re: M2PA questions on synchronization and message handling

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

Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:              (Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:45:12)
> > 
> > not if they are connected:
> > 
> > 1. message is received with invalid BSN. This message wil be discarded
> > 2. User Data message is received with FSN=x, valid, but it should be
> > discarded according to Q.703 statement above.
> > 3. User Data message is received with FSN=x+1. This is unexpected FSN and
> > the message will be discarded....and so on.
> > 
> > finally ack timer will expire and the link will go Out of Service.
> 
> The peer violated the protocol at 1.  (The rest is just one possible
> result of that.)  You should not find it surprising that signalling
> links fail to operate and eventually find themselves in the out-of-
> service state when one side refuses to follow the protocol.

See also test case 3.8.10-1 in draft-bidulock-sigtran-m2pa-test-08.txt
and section 2.2 of draft-bidulock-sigtran-ig-01.txt.

--brian

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Brian F. G. Bidulock
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