Re: [M3UA] Action on Receipt of ERROR
"David Laight" <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:21:06 -0000
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> 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