Subject: Re: [SUA issue 17 & M3UA issue #11] IPSP cases.

From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:51:21 -0500

Klaus,

NIC failures are rarely the problem.  Netwtork path failures are.

--brian

Gradischnig, Klaus wrote:                   (Fri, 07 Sep 2001 11:59:57)
>
> Fine with me John. This describes a linkset. Don't need traffic modes for
> this.
> 
> In any case, I agree with Javier's analysis that SCTP does away with the
> need for retrieval. "Link" failures are transparently handled by SCTP. And
> host (aka line card) failures are normally not going to leave anything
> behind to be retrieved whether SCTP or MTP2 are used.
> 
> Klaus
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: September 07, 2001 4:23 AM
> > To: sigtran
> > Subject: RE: [SUA issue 17 & M3UA issue #11] IPSP cases.
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Very generally, for redundacy sake, SUA/M3UA SHOULD have
> > more than 1 ASP per AS.  In the case that 1 ASP fails,
> > connection to/from the other ASP can be activated/used.
> > 
> > A real world example would be a host consisting of
> > several line cards, each card having an interface +
> > processor.  Each line card would have a seperate instance
> > of SCTP running on it.  That would make each line card
> > an ASP.  The host would be the AS.  
> > 
> > Simple enough.
> > John
> > 
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