Subject: Re: [SUA Issue] Hop Counter

From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:34:02 -0500

Gery,

Verwimp Gery wrote:                                       (Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:31:42)
> John,
> 
> Hop counter is mandatory for CLDT, CLDR and CORE (all that can be routed on
> GT).  Procedures apply to decrement the hop counter whenever GTT/AMF is
> invoked to prevent loops.
> 
> There's also no reason why the hop counter value can't be transparently
> passed between SCCP and SUA at the SG. The perceived "impossibility" again
> comes from an incorrect view of the NIF as "SCCP or SUA-user", which doesn't
> have the hop counter in the "user interface". But the NIF is any possible
> interworking between SCCP and SUA at the SG.

But one which needs to be described so that implementations can interoperate
properly with regard to hop counter.

--brian

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Brian F. G. Bidulock
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http://www.openss7.org/

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