METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN SCTP PROTOCOL INSTANCE

摘要

The invention relates to a network node (NN) comprising a first SCTP protocol instance (PI) providing redundancy of an SCTP endpoint the first SCTP protocol instance (PI) is connectable to a peer SCTP protocol instance via an SCTP connection (C 1 ). Furthermore the first SCTP protocol instance is connectable to a further SCTP protocol instance providing redundancy of the SCTP endpoint via a consistency protocol for providing state consistency between the first SCTP protocol instance and the further SCTP protocol instance and via a connection for forwarding messages addressed to the further protocol instance to be processed by the first protocol instance or vice versa.