Cell Relay Archive

[betker@pgtr0062.mch.sni.de (Thomas Betker)]

Shaheen Ali (ali@mediaone.net) wrote:
: I have a general ILMI address registration question.  If a host on the
: user side of a UNI connection (DTE) has multiple addresses to register,
: do all the addresses have to have the same ESI?

: So, for example.  If I have two services on my host (one LANE server and
: one IPOA client for example):

: ESI                        SEL
: 00.08.11.00.00.01.01
: 0A.08.11.00.00.01.02

: Notice that the ESI fields are different.  If after getting a network
: prefix, may I register the above two addresses with the upstream
: switch?  Will the switch be able to deal with the fact that one DTE has
: two addresses with different ESI fields?

According to the ILMI Spec., you may register more than one ESI.
This may be restricted by the switch's implementation, though.

: I am using a FORE ASX-200.  I am having a hard time confirming that the
: switch is accepting my two addresses.

Our current FORE switches do accept multiple ESIs. The ASX-200 is an
older model, though, so I I can't tell.

Why should it give you such a hard time to check? If you have
access to the switch's AMI, there is some command to show you which
addresses have been registered. Anyway, if you receive calls for both
addresses, registration was okay.

Hope that helps,
Thomas Betker
(thomas.betker@mch6.siemens.de)