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- From: marc@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman)
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP over ISDN
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.040648.20853@dumbcat.sf.ca.us>
- Reply-To: marc@ascend.com
- Organization: MSH Software, Hayward, CA
- References: <1878o4INN4t9@smurf.smurf.sub.org> <ms.715642065@walhalla> <1992Sep8.183030.330@gandalf.ca>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:06:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.183030.330@gandalf.ca> djarrett@gandalf.ca (Dave Jarrett) writes:
- > Don't get hung up on this user-user information thing. All we require
- > to do a poll, is 1 available bit, anywhere in the connect packet, which
- > will tell the receiving node that this connect request is really a poll.
- > Surely even ITR6 has 1 available bit which can be used for this purpose?
-
- Hmmmm, I'm looking at the AT&T PRI spec (TR 41449/TR 41459) and the only
- Information Elements that are mandatory are:
-
- Bearer Capability
- Channel Identification
- Called party number
-
- Experience tells me that the Bearer Capability for an incoming call often
- bears no relation to the one in the originators setup message.
-
- The channel ID IE is node-to-node, not end-to-end. All its bits are accounted
- for anyway.
-
- The "mandatory" called party number isn't in setups that come from a Definity
- Generic I PBX.
-
- Ok, on to BRI and the 5ESS specifically (I'm not picking on AT&T, it's just
- that I happen to have their manuals at home). Only the Bearer capability is
- required.
-
- Maybe in the future when the world is SS7 you'll be able to trust the bearer
- cap IE. Until that time
- * as your call goes from switch to switch it can (and will) be munged
- * it sometimes lies. I've received calls with a 64K Bearer Cap IE that I
- *know* went over at least one line/network that only had 56K capabilities.
-
- Now where is that bit?
-
- // marc
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