[j-nsp] regarding link aggregation

[Niels Bakker]

> * manomugdhab at yahoo.co.in (manomugdha biswas) [Fri 15 Oct 2004, 07:28 CEST]:
>> I have a question regarding the Link Aggregation. There is a term
>> "conversation" in link aggregation draft (IEEE document). Could you
>> please explain me what this is meant by this term "conversation"?

The IEEE gives a definition for conversation in the 802 standard:

| 1.4.94 Conversation: A set of MAC frames transmitted from one end
| station to another, where all of the MAC frames form an ordered
| sequence, and where the communicating end stations require the ordering
| to be maintained among the set of MAC frames exchanged. (See IEEE 802.3®
| Clause 43.) 

Router types usually call a conversation a flow.


	-- Niels.

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