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DLSw Terms

Before configuring DLSw on a Services Router, become familiar with the terms defined in Table 54.

Table 54: DLSw Terms

Term

Definition

circuit cost

Value you assign to a remote peer to indicate the relative preference for establishing a circuit through the specified peer. The lower the cost, the higher the preference.

circuit weight

Value you assign to a remote peer to indicate the extent to which the specified peer can participate in establishing circuits. The higher the circuit weight, the greater the percentage of total circuits established with this remote peer.

destination service access point (DSAP)

Service access point (SAP) that identifies the destination for which a logical link control protocol data unit (LPDU) is intended.

DLSw circuit

Path formed by establishing a data link control (DLC) connection between each locally configured SNA end system and a local router configured for DLSw. A DLSw circuit is identified by the circuit ID, which includes the SNA end system MAC address, local service access point (LSAP), destination MAC address, and destination service access point (DSAP). Multiple DLSw circuits can operate over the same DLSw connection.

DLSw connection

Set of TCP connections between two DLSw peers that is established after the initial handshake and successful capabilities exchange.

explorer timeout

Number of seconds a DLSw router waits for a response from its peers to its explorer requests.

I-frame

Information frame used to transfer sequentially numbered logical link control protocol data units (LPDUs) between link stations.

Logical Link Control (LLC)

Data-link layer protocol used on a LAN. LLC1 provides connectionless data transfer, and LLC type 2 provides connection-oriented data transfer.

LLC protocol data unit (LPDU)

Logical link control (LLC) frame on a DLSw network.

local reachability cache

Cache of pairs of local media access control (MAC) addresses and local Logical Link Control (LLC) IP addresses, maintained on a DLSw router for a specified number of seconds. The router uses the local cache to determine whether a local SNA host is reachable through any of the router's LLC interface.

preemption

Process by which a master router takes over from a backup router after recovering from a failure incident.

priority-cost

Value that is deducted from the priority value of a router to determine when it takes over for a master router.

redundancy group

Group of DLSw peer routers on the same Ethernet segment of a network.

remote reachability cache

Cache of pairs of remote media access control (MAC) addresses and remote peer IP addresses, maintained on a DLSw router for a specified number of seconds. The router uses the remote cache to determine whether a remote SNA host is reachable through any of the router's remote peers.

service access point (SAP)

OSI term for the component of a network address that identifies the individual application sending or receiving a packet on a host.

source service access point (SSAP)

Service access point (SAP) that identifies the origin of an LPDU on a DLSw network.

Switch-to-Switch Protocol (SSP)

Protocol implemented between two DLSw routers that establishes connections, locates resources, forwards data, and handles error recovery and flow control.


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