Subject: RE: [AAA-WG]: SLP Diameter Server Discovery

From: Thomas Panagiotis-PTHOMAS1 <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 06:57:07 -0500

Eric and Pat, 

>> Unless of course, if SLP has the limitation that only servers within the
>> same administrative domain can be discovered.
>
> SLPv2 does have this limitation.  SLP agents use either multicast for 
> discovery or local configuration (to an administrative domain) the
> agents obtain from DHCP.  The latter is important in networks where
> (site internal) multicast routing is not available.

Thanks for your explanations. I think it is worth adding this information
in the document, to make it more explicit to people (like me) that are not
very familiar with SLP.

-Panos

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Guttman [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: 15 May 2001 01:59
To: Thomas Panagiotis-PTHOMAS1
Cc: [email-masked]'
Subject: Re: [AAA-WG]: SLP Diameter Server Discovery

> Pat,
> 
> I'd propose changing:
> 
> "2.5 Diameter Server Discovery
>  ...
>  SLPv2 will allow Diameter implementations to discover the location of
>  Diameter servers in the local site, as well as their characteristics."
> 
> to:
> 
> "SLPv2 will allow Diameter implementations in the local site to discover
>  the location of Diameter severs, as well as their characteristics."
> 
> Unless of course, if SLP has the limitation that only servers within the
> same administrative domain can be discovered.

SLPv2 does have this limitation.  SLP agents use either multicast for 
discovery or local configuration (to an administrative domain) the
agents obtain from DHCP.  The latter is important in networks where
(site internal) multicast routing is not available.

Erik

Erik