RE: [RPRWG] Two doubts
Hi Raul,
The answers to your questions are:
1. In D2.1 the message types are the protection message (which performs the basic protection and topology discovery functions), the station TLV message (which contains all TLVs other than vendor-specific TLVs), and the vendor-specific TLV message. None of these messages are wrapped.
2. The protection message as defined in D2.1 contains the link status on both east and west interfaces of a station, as well as the wrap status on both east and west interfaces.
It is important that you get D2.1 because there were changes in the protection message contents between D1.1 and D2.0, and between D2.0 and D2.1.
-- Jason Fan
Luminous Networks
-----Original Message-----
From: Raśl Gil [mailto:raul.gil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 4:26 PM
To: stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [RPRWG] Two doubts
Importance: High
Hello,
I am a student of Barcelona and I am programming the protocol RPR for
the simulator ns. The work is almost finished, but I have two doubts:
1. I don't know if the topology status message are wrapped or not
because if are wrapped, will be created more lines in the topology
database in all nodes. And these lines are not necessary.
2. In case of fiber failure (protection mechanism) I don't know when
update the topology database because the topology status message does
not have information about the state of the node (wrapped or IDLE). I
have thought to use the long message (when a node receive a long message
change the line of the topology database corresponding to the source of
the long message).
I would be grateful that could solve my doubts.
Thanks!
Raśl Gil.