[NAILS REQUESTED PREVIEW]: Re: SCTP failover

From: <lehmann@ulticom.com>
Date: Fri Feb 11 2005 - 15:52:02 EST
('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) ('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Armando L. Caro, Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, David Lehmann wrote:
>
>
>>>Nope. When the error count is greater than 0 on the
>>>primary destination, Ulticom uses an alternate destination,
>>>until the error is cleared on the primary destination.
>>>So, if the user is using the default values, the user
>>>will only see a blip for one second.
>>>(...assuming an RTO of 1 second)
>>
>>I need to correct my former post. Assuming a steady flow
>>of data chunks, the switch-over with Ulticom's stack will
>>actually be in a fraction of a second since the FR will
>>notice the problem long before the RTO.
>
> Hmm... I think that is getting too aggressive. This behavior could
> cause reordering and induce false fast retransmits. Why would you do that?

I don't like to wait! :-) It seems to work well.

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Received on Fri Feb 11 15:52:29 2005

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