Re: [M3UA] Action on Receipt of ERROR

"David Laight" <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:21:06 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sigtran
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 
> We have been looking at various vendors implementation of 
> M3UA and seen a significant divergence in the handling of 
> M3UA ERROR messages.....

The problem I had with the M3UA MGMT ERROR messages is that
they are completely 'out of band' with any requests.
We have code to detect 'Mangement blocking' as a reponse
to an activate request (an explicit negative ack to the
activate would be much better), but otherwise assume
the MGMT errors are likely to be the result of M3UA
protocol mismatches. However we can't be certain of this
so take no immediate action.
If the remote system has rejected an important message
then a guard timer expires and we disconnect - since the
far end clearly is very confused - then retry later.

This may be a rather pragmatic solution....

	David