Re: [M3UA] Mgmt Blocking

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

Santhana wrote:                            (Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:01)
> 
>    Hi
> 
>                When the SGP/IPSP is Blocked by the Management, the RFC
>    4666 says, the SGP/IPSP should return ERROR(Mgmt Block) on receiving
>    ASP UP/ASP ACTIVE.
> 
>    But does this Mgmt Block, prohibits sending of ASP UP/ASP ACTIVE also.
> 
> 
>    I could work out a scenario in IPSP DE mode, where an IPSP is blocked
>    by the Management in INACTIVE state. Now when it is in INACTIVE state,
>    for any ACTIVE message received, it returns ERROR (Mgmt Block). But
>    locally can it send ASP ACTIVE and becomes ACTIVE in one direction. Is
>    this allowed?

Yes.  And that is one of the deficiencies of DE mode (that
unidirectional traffic  can result) and one of the reasons
why SE mode is recommended.

>    How to define Mgmt Block in IPSP DE mode?

Yes, that is the way it works.  If that doesn't make much
sense to you, consider using SE mode instead.

--brian


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