Re: Help:Clarification on M3UA functionality

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

That would be great, but RFC 4666 has no section and does not
define SCTP endpoint.  It is defined in RFC 4960, which is
normative.

RFC 4666 does say:

   Application Server Process (ASP) - A process instance of an
   Application Server.  An Application Server Process serves as an
   active or backup process of an Application Server (e.g., part of a
   distributed virtual switch or database).  Examples of ASPs are
   processes (or process instances) of MGCs, IP SCPs, or IP HLRs.  An
   ASP contains an SCTP endpoint and may be configured to process
   signalling traffic within more than one Application Server.

So an ASP can simply be one of a number of ASP processes on a host,
each with their own SCTP endpoint (IP address and port combination).
So, one HOST can have multiple SCTP associations to an SG, each
represent a different ASP, uniquely identified by ASP Id where the
SCTP endpoint address is no known to the SG.

--brian

Barry Nagelberg wrote:                                                                                                         (Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:35:49)
> All,
> 
> Peter Holland is correct. To avoid confusion, I suggest that we use the SCTP definitions as they appear in RFC4666, in
> section 1.3. (Key Terms):
> 
> SCTP endpoint: The logical sender/receiver of SCTP packets.
> 
> SCTP association: ...  Two SCTP endpoints MUST NOT have
>       more than one SCTP association between them at any given time.
> 
> Barry Nagelberg
> Adax, Inc.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of Brian F. G. Bidulock
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:19 PM
> To: HOLLAND, Peter (Peter)
> Cc: Suresh Marikkannu; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Sigtran] Help:Clarification on M3UA functionality
> 
> 
> HOLLAND,,
> 
> HOLLAND, Peter (Peter) wrote:
> >
> >    Brian,
> >
> >    I also question this:
> >
> >    RFC4666 says:  An  ASP contains an SCTP endpoint
> >
> >    and RFC2960 says:  Two SCTP endpoints MUST NOT have
> >          more than one SCTP association between them at any given time.
> 
> An SCTP endpoint is a set of IP addresses and a port number.
> Multiple associations can be formed from different port numbers.
> 
> --brian
> 
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