Re: Help:Clarification on M3UA functionality

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

Suresh Marikkannu wrote:                                                                                                      (Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:51:55)
> 
>    But RFC 4666 section 1.3.2.4 says that,
> 
> 
>    In order to avoid redundant SCTP associations between two M3UA peers,
>    one side (client) SHOULD be designated to establish the SCTP
>    association, or
> 
>    M3UA configuration information maintained to detect redundant
>    associations (e.g., via knowledge of the expected local and remote
>    SCTP endpoint addresses).

SCTP endpoint address includes port number.

An M3UA client can form multiple SCTP associations from different
originating port numbers.

>    Can you clarify on this?
> 
> 
>    And also can you provide any use cases to have multiple sctp
>    associations between two ASP?

Yes.  Where the M3UA client (AS) uses dynamic port allocation
it uses the ASP Id to distinguish between ASPs on the same host.

--brian

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