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- From: ms@Germany.EU.net (Marc Sheldon)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.dcom.isdn
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP over ISDN
- Message-ID: <ms.715642065@walhalla>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 21:27:45 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.182348.19584@gandalf.ca> <1992Aug28.114002.25416@stc.nato.int> <1992Aug31.183707.18401@gandalf.ca> <1878o4INN4t9@smurf.smurf.sub.org>
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- urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
- > Unfortunately, the original request came from Germany.
- > We don't have Q.931 (yet). We also don't have user-user data; maximum
- > user information transmittable during call setup is 10 bits in forward
- > direction (device address (1 decimal digit) and 2nd byte of service type)
- > and 6 bits back (the cause value). So polling is possible, though I'd rather
- > use it to ask if there's anything in the UUCP queue for the calling system.
-
- Sorry to correct you there, but there are not even that many Bits
- to transmit. The second byte of the service type (i believe it is
- called "Additional information") ist not available because the applicable
- German Standard (1TR6) disagrees with itself on the point of transmission
- of AI if you use the 64 kBit clear channel data service. According
- to the 1TR6 the switch can either transmit AI transparently (so quoted
- somewhere at the beginning of the standard) or it can set it to zero
- (so quoted somewhere at the end of the SAME standard). We had several
- problems with this as we used AI as a protocol identifier just to find
- that some german PTT switches (namely those from Alcatel) set AI to
- zero and some (namely those from Siemens) pass AI through. After we
- informed the DBP Telekom about this inconsistency we were told that
- the software on the Siemens switches would be changed to set AI to
- zero, thereby making our use of AI impossible. So much for passing
- User-to-User-Information.
-
- Cheers,
- Marc
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