RFC 3049 (rfc3049) - Page 1 of 21
TN3270E Service Location and Session Balancing
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Network Working Group J. Naugle
Request for Comments: 3049 K. Kasthurirangan
Category: Standards Track IBM
G. Ledford
Zephyr Development
January 2001
TN3270E Service Location and Session Balancing
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document discusses the implementation of Service Location
Protocol (SLP) and session balancing with a TN3270E emulator in a
client server implementation with a TN3270E server.
Application program developer's can locate TN3270E services and load
balance among those services (3270 host sessions), by using this SLP
support.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Terminology ................................. 2
1.1 Terminology .............................................. 2
2. An Overview of RFC 2165 ...................................... 3
2.1 SLP Agents ............................................... 3
2.2 Service Agents ........................................... 3
2.3 User Agents .............................................. 4
3. TN3270E Server Environment and Load .......................... 4
3.1 TnN3270E Server Load ..................................... 4
4. TN3270E Client Configuration ................................. 6
4.1 SLP Scope ................................................ 6
4.2 DA-Discovery Time-Out .................................... 6
4.3 SA-Discovery Time-Out .................................... 7
5. TN3270E Client Implementation Information .................... 7
5.1 Overview ................................................. 7
Naugle, et al. Standards Track