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Re: (ASCEND) Inter operability & BACP,DBA,BOD et. al.
At 03:49 PM 9/15/97 -0700, James Johnson wrote:
>
>On the Portmaster list we are having a discussion about dynamic bandwidth
>allocation. There seems to be a problem between Ascend Pipelines and PM3
>which prohibits adding a 2nd channel on demand. Also on 128k links if one
>channel gets taken down (outgoing/incoming voice) it will not go back up.
>
>Even without BACP, MP should be able to handle this (according to RFC
>1717). Several other products do not have this problem (ZyXEL Elite,
>WebRamp, Farlon Netopia, others?). Of course its not only Pipeline with
>this problem, 3Com ImpactIQ appears to have it too.
>
>So I'm curious what causes this problem. If MP can bundle a newly opened
>channel with an existing one, what is preventing it from happening?
You don't say who is calling who. If the PM dials the Pipeline to add the
channel, it should work fine. The Pipeline won't choose (based on DBA) to
add the channel unless you use BACP.
Matt Holdrege - http://www.ascend.com - matt@ascend.com
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