139   Destination Address needs to be in SVCB

Created: 31 Mar 2005

Status: In Force (green)

Part: Part 9-2 (2004)

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Category: Issue for edition 2 of this part

Issue

Within the current scheme of 61850, the GSE and SMV control blocks do not contain the destination (multicast) MAC address, while the Goose control blocks do. This means that the only way of finding out the group addresses for GSE and SMV are through SCL. This is fine if everything is configured correctly, but does not allow for the validation of the configuration, and will make diagnostics needlessly difficult. If we made the addresses visible in MMS, life will be much simpler for utilities.

Proposal

Add the DstAddress type structure from 8-1 into the SVCB.